Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: A Reader’s Guide

Literary Movements & Periods

Author: Norbert Schürer

The aim of this series is to provide accessible and informative introductions to the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years…..Read More

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