Midnight’s Children

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‘India has produced a great novelist…a master of perpetual storytelling’ V.S. Pritchett, New YorkerBorn at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem’s life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India. It is a great gift, and a terrible burden.

Additional information

Weight 0.484 kg
Dimensions 3.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

672

Publisher

Year Published

1995-5-18

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099578514

About The Author

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

A wonderful, rich and humane novel that is safe to call a classic.

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Midnight's Children is also full of such zest for every messy aspect of life that you can't help but feel inspired

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