Oak Tree Fine Press

First Chapter Series ® Volume X – Release date early 2012

Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children

We are proud to state that the final signed volume in the Booker Prize First Chapter Series© features the very Best of Bookers, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Originally awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, this breathtaking narrative was awarded the Best of Bookers in 1993 and again in 2008, in separate ceremonies celebrating the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the Booker Prize.

Midnight’s Children offers a magic carpet of a ride through the social history of modern India, embodied and experienced by a narrator born at the very second that India gained independence. Blazing a trail through fairy tale and fact, the opening pages of this book establish the dazzling storytelling skill and key themes that shape this uniquely ambitious story.

"The literary map of India is about to be redrawn... What [English-language fiction about India] has been missing is... something just a little coarse, a hunger to swallow India whole and spit it out... Now, in 'Midnight's Children,' Salman Rushdie has realized that ambition."
New York Times

For this volume, Oak Tree Fine Press has returned to supporting up and coming artists. Inspired by both Rushdie’s narrative style and enduring elements of Indian culture, local art student Thomas Howard has created a unique piece especially for this edition. Impressionist and modern approaches come together in this vivid symbolic painting, in which layers of meaning lead the viewer to a new awareness of variety and endless change.

Each numbered and illustrated book is individually signed by the author and includes numbered artwork, signed by the artist, in a matching hand made cassette.

The First Chapter Series

The First Chapter Series® of Booker Prize-winning novels is available to buy as a deluxe set limited to 150 copies. The set comprises individually numbered copies of all ten volumes, signed by the author to the title page and hand bound in cloth. Each volume includes signed artwork* enclosed with the book in a matching hand made slip case and cassette. View set

*Please note the following exceptions: artwork for Volume V must be purchased separately; artwork for Volume VIII is unsigned.

Set of ten books: ₤1500

All books from Oak Tree Fine Press are dedicated to children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

Links

The official website of Salman Rushdie