jajwalya 's review for:

4.0

I had new found appreciation for Salman Rushdie after listening to him in Joseph Anton. But The Midnight's Children is where he was at his peak for me. Perhaps it is because I was so much younger and that introduction to his worlds and words was beautiful.
In this book, I wish I got a closer look at Shehrezade and One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights through the Rushdie lenscope. Instead I get Duniyazade and the embedded symbolism of the powerful genie world interspersed within the human world. I loved the hook, but I didn't drown as i would have liked to. Was it the narration?