title: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
author: Norbert Schurer
description: "The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media; and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films." The Times Higher Education Supplement
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  **MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN**
  
  Salmon Rusdie is the author of seven novels: _Grimus, Midnight's Children_
  (which was awarded the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Prize), _Shame_
  (winner of the French Prix du Meillear Livre Etranger), _The Satanic_ _Verses_
  (winner of the Whitbread Prize for the Best Novel), _Haroun and the Sea of
  Stories_ (winner of the Writers'
  
  Guild Award), _The Moor's Last Sigh_ (winner of the European Aristeion Prize
  for Literature) and _The Ground_ _Beneath Her Feet_. He has also published a
  collection of short stories, _East, West_ ; a book of reportage, _The_ _Jaguar
  Smile: A Nicaraguan journey;_ a volume of essays, _Imaginary Homelands_ , and
  a work of film criticism,
  
  _'The Wizard of Oz_ '.
  
  Salman Rusdie was awarded Germany's Author of the Year Award for his novel
  _The Satanic Verses_ in 1989. In 1993, _Midnight's Children_ was adjudged the
  'Booker of Bookers' the best novel to have won the 'Booker Prize in its first
  25 years. In 