Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie—less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947—the moment at which India became an independent nation—are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view—and certainly his sense of the fantastical—has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie od authora Salman Rushdie a nakladatelství v kategorii Knihy za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature od naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! CCV: Daily Telegraph, James Walton 'the result is a book that feels not unlike anything written before, but also anything... ''Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers.' Observer ' New Vintage edition of the Booker of Booker winners.