Journal Entry 1 by miumaumou from Pori, Satakunta Finland on Friday, February 19, 2010

BIRTH OF A CHILD...
AND A NATION

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight on August 15, 1947 - the very instant that India attained her independence. Together in this brilliant, phantasmagoric saga, nation and child go through the pangs of birth, the tantrums of childhood, the traumas of adolescence, and the anomie of adulthood. Author Salman Rushdie has woven dreams into reality, mystery into magic, and truth into fantasy.

The New Yourker has called Salman Rushdie "a glittering novelist - one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling. Like Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude, he weaves a whole people's capacity of carrying its inherited myths - and new ones that it goes on generating - into a kind of magic carpet... as a tour de force his fantasy is irresistible."
And the Philadelphia inquirer called Midnight's Children "a dazzlingly written novel... a fascinating history lesson as well as an engrossing story."

Paperback 1982 

Journal Entry 2 by miumaumou from Pori, Satakunta Finland on Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I don't intend to read this, but I had to bought it 'cause it cost only 10 cent...
I found someone who had wished for this, so...

This is book n:o 27 of the PRKL-challenge in the Finnish forum. (PRKL = Pidä Ringitön Kirja Liikkeellä = Keep the Ringless Book in Moving) 

Journal Entry 3 by miumaumou at Pori, Satakunta Finland on Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/24/2010 UTC) at Pori, Satakunta Finland

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Congratulations (and surprise)! Have an excellent BC-birthday! 7 years... wow, that's something. 

Journal Entry 4 by Tintti from Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi Finland on Thursday, March 25, 2010

Wow, what a suprise! Thank you, miumaumou! I've had this book on my wishlist for ages. Really looking forward to reading this!

Aug 19, 2011: I tried to read this, but unfortunately found it rather boring and slow. I've liked some of Rushdie's books, but this one just didn't do the trick. I'm currently in Croatia on holiday and I released the book in Zagreb city centre. I hope someone finds it and enjoys it more than I did!  

Journal Entry 5 by Tintti at -- wild released somewhere in city centre in Zagreb: Donji grad (city centre), Zagreb City Croatia on Friday, August 19, 2011

Released 9 mos ago (8/19/2011 UTC) at -- wild released somewhere in city centre in Zagreb: Donji grad (city centre), Zagreb City Croatia

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Left the book on a bench on Varšavska street.