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Midnight's children

                Midnight's Children                                     - By Salman Rushdie - : About the Writer :-  Salman Rushdie (19 June, 1947), in full sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, is an Indian born writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects made him a controversial figure. He is best known for his fifth book, The Satanic verses. Which prompted a fatwa against him in 1989. But over the past 40 years he has published 16 others, including Midnight's Children - the winner of three Booker awards- and his latest novel, Two years Eight Months nand Twenty-Eight Nights. A disciplined worker by day and a socializer by night, he says he strives for writing that "stands the test...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

                                          W ide Sargasso Sea                                                                 - Jean Rhys Introduction :- Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys.  Jean Rhys (originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure. A "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea won a prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967. Wide Sargasso Sea consists of two parts. It is a visceral response to Charlotte Bronte's tr...