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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Beautifully written. One of the quotes on the back of
the book describes it as a "continent finding its
voice" and I do think I agree with that
characterization. Rushdie writes dialogue in a way
that sounds so natural and familiar to me. There are
certain phrases and moments where it sounds like a
conversation I might overhear in India with my family.
The realization halfway through the book came out of
LEFT field, had no idea where the story was leading.
It was very interesting, but did feel aggressively
dense at times. Took me a while to get through, and
was a bit fatiguing. I think this was largely because
the writing is so dense and beautiful, definitely want
to read more from him in the future! Was also very
cool to hear descriptions of Srinagar and loved the
opening to the book about BIG NOSES.