• Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Midnight’s Children

  • Aug 28 2024
  • Duración: 53 m
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Midnight’s Children

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  • In today’s Great Political Fiction David explores Salman Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece Midnight’s Children, the great novel about the life and death of Indian democracy. How can one boy stand in for the whole of India? How can a nation as diverse as India ever have a single politics? And how is a jar of pickle the answer to these questions? Plus, how does Rushdie’s story read today, in the age of Modi?


    Tomorrow: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale


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