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Also by Salman Rushdie:

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Joseph Anton, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Luka and the Fire of Life, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Luka And The Fire Of Life, November 2010
Hardcover
The Enchantress of Florence, June 2008
Hardcover
Midnight's Children: A Novel, April 2006
Paperback
Shalimar, The Clown, September 2005
Hardcover
The Satanic Verses, December 2000
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: A NOVEL
By: Salman Rushdie

Random House Trade Paperbacks
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
560 pages
ISBN: 0812976533
EAN: 9780812976533
Paperback
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Fiction

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty- five years after its publication, Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

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