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Midnight's Children: A Novel
Salman Rushdie
Random House Trade Paperbacks
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
560 pages
ISBN: 0812976533
EAN: 9780812976533
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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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