《Midnight's children_ a novel 》作者：- Salman Rushdie【EPUB】

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MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN A Novel Salman Rushdie For Zafar Rushdie who, contrary to all expectations,was born in the afternoon Introduction IN 1975 I PUBLISHED my first novel, Grimus, and decided to use the ??700 advance to travel in India as cheaply as possible for as long as I could make the money last, and on that journey of fifteen-hour bus rides and humble hostelries Midnight’s Children was born. It was the year that Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party and Sheikh Mujib, the founder of Bangladesh, was murdered; when the Baader-Meinhof gang was on trial in Stuttgart and Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham and the last Americans were evacuated from Saigon and Generalissimo Franco died. In Cambodia it was the Khmer Rouge’s bloody Year Zero