Midnight's Children: The iconic Booker-prize winning novel

Salman Rushdie

Sep 2010 · Random House

About this ebook

'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

Ratings and reviews

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.

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

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"

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.