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The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people - a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Saleem’s life is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible, in Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece. Born at midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences for which Saleem is not prepared: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other ‘midnight’s children’ - all born in the initial hour of India’s independence - and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out danger imperceptible to others.“The extravagance of Mr Rushdie’s inventions will call to mind the hovering presence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; call it tropical synchronicity ... As a Bombay book, which is to say, a big-city book, Midnight’s Children is coarse, knowing, comfortable with Indian pop culture and, above all, aggressive. Sal

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Author

Salman Rushdie

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307744111

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction