Middernachtskinderen

mass market paperback, 531 pages

Dutch language

Published March 25, 1997 by Pandora.

ISBN:
978-90-254-5738-9
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OCLC Number:
68573579

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Hoofdpersoon in deze sprankelende roman, waarvoor Salman Rushdie de Booker/McConnell Prize ontving, is Saleem Sinai, die klokslag middernacht op 15 augustus 1947 wordt geboren. Het is het moment dat India onafhankelijk wordt. Saleem meent dan ook dat hij een bepalende rol in dat land gaat vervullen.

Hij is echter niet de enige: er zijn op datzelfde moment duizend en één middernachtskinderen geboren. Alle beschikken Zij over bovennatuurlijke eigenschappen... --back cover

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A book that sounds awesome, but is not.

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I wanted to read this book for a long time. It sounds awesome, a kid born right at midnight as newly partitioned India officially is declared independent of Britian, and he eventually learns he has magic abilities that include the ability to communicate telepathically with all other kids that were born in the first hour since the country's birth.

It, however, is not good. I find nothing redeeming about this story. Nothing happens in the entire first section of the book, to the point the protagonist's wife even goes about interrupting the story asking him to get to the good part. It's kind of meta, but not in the fun way. When we got to section II it kept feeling like it was just about to get good, just enough to keep my reading. Yet, nothing ever came interesting. I read some 400 pages before I gave up on it. …

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