Midnight's Children
Author(s): Salman Rushdie
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious
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'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
Shortlisted for Best of the Booker 2008.
"One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" The New York Review of Books
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- : Penguin Random House
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- : 30 June 2008
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