《午夜的孩子》(Mid-night’s Children)是印裔英国作家萨尔曼·拉什迪(Salman Rushdie,1947—)的著名长篇小说,出版于1981年。本刊这里介绍的是这部长篇的选译。这部小说全书共分三部三十章。这里介绍的是第一部最后四章。大致可以对作者的艺术风格起到管中窥豹的作用。详细情况参见译者刘凯芳所写的论文《一位滔滔不绝地讲故事的大师》(载于本期译文之后)。 Mid-night’s Children, a famous novel by Indian-American writer Salman Rushdie (1947-), was published in 1981. This publication is introduced here is the lengthy election translation. The book is divided into three chapters. Here is the first four chapters. Can roughly play an important role in the author’s artistic style. For more information, see the essay by Liu Kai-fang, translator, “A guru who gossips stories” (later in this issue).