Midnight's Children: The iconic Booker-prize winning novel
Sep 2010 · Random House
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'A wonderful, rich and humane novel... a classic' Guardian
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.
*WINNER OF THE BOOKER AND BEST OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**
WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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.
*WINNER OF THE BOOKER AND BEST OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**
WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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4.3
113 reviews
sourav tibrewal
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September 29, 2017
Too intellectual for readers like me. The book is so famous that you can't crtizice, the story is so wired that you can't enjoy. All said an done, I am not good enough to appreciate Salman Rushdie's writing
29 people found this review helpful
Na Ap
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July 30, 2022
It took a passionate friend at bookclub and a librarian to get me to really appreciate this book. If you're passionate about India and it's recent history coming out of colonialism then you'll appreciate this better than most of the rest of us.
vedika s
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December 20, 2014
This book takes you on an enchanting journey of the lives of Saleem Sinai and his ancestors. Rushdie explains the reason for mentioning his parent's and grandparent's lives before explaining his own with the quote "To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world"
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About the author
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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