1993 Man Booker prize winner, and Best of the Booker really deserved that. Perfectly crafted beads converted into a great story. And the way Salman tells the story is really marvelous. The story has its own turns, ups and downs but everything creates more interest than earlier. As soon as you start feeling comfortable with the story and start guessing the next, story turns and take you to whole new world of Saleem Sinai's (main character of the book) life.
Saleem Sinai, lead character of the book was used to narrate the story. He is one of the few children born at midnight, the midnight India got independence. "... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came"........`"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance...". His life started and get intermingled with India freedom and after; gives a colorful and first hand picture of India after independence.
With approximately 100 books in my shelf, I can say one of the best so far. Real thumbs up, a must read.
PS: For new readers, size of the book can be intimidating and tough to go through 400 pages but its worth the pain. This read will convert you in serious reader for sure.
Saleem Sinai, lead character of the book was used to narrate the story. He is one of the few children born at midnight, the midnight India got independence. "... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came"........`"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance...". His life started and get intermingled with India freedom and after; gives a colorful and first hand picture of India after independence.
With approximately 100 books in my shelf, I can say one of the best so far. Real thumbs up, a must read.
PS: For new readers, size of the book can be intimidating and tough to go through 400 pages but its worth the pain. This read will convert you in serious reader for sure.
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