1947: India has gained its independence and on the first day as an independent nation the first children of independence were born at midnight, this is the story of one of those children.
review:
I love Rushdie's writing, the language and flow of every phrase is so beautifully crafted reading anything by him is an absolute treat. The characters are easy to love (and hate), the story is an interesting one and the way it is framed is brilliant (narrated through time and space in a rather slapdash way). The story and the beauty of the language makes it worth taking the rambling path trough reading it. BUT I do recommend being prepared for a bit of a challenging read so maybe save it for when you don't have ten thousand other things on your mind.
9/10
"Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own."
"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible."
if you enjoyed this please read
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
a good and watchable movie... there is a nice direction and good acting...
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