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'BEST OF THE BOOKER' AWARD WINNER • This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people.
 
“One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.” —The New York Review of Books
 
Saleem Sinai, the hero of Midnight's Children, is one of the thousand and one children born in India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the dawn of its independence from British rule—the moment, in the words of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, when India had her tryst with destiny. The twists and turns of this destiny form the springboard from which Salman Rushdie launches into his celebrated fantasia of our modernity.
 
At once a fairy tale, a furious political satire, and a meditation on the ways in which time and change both shape and are shaped by the life of a single ind

Midnights Children Everymans Library Contemporary

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      Publisher Random House USA Inc
      Published 17 October 1995
      ISBN-13 9780679444626
      978-0679444626
      ISBN-10 0679444629
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      Religious & Spiritual Fiction Books by Salman Rushdie

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'BEST OF THE BOOKER' AWARD WINNER • This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people.
       
      “One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.” —The New York Review of Books
       
      Saleem Sinai, the hero of Midnight's Children, is one of the thousand and one children born in India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the dawn of its independence from British rule—the moment, in the words of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, when India had her tryst with destiny. The twists and turns of this destiny form the springboard from which Salman Rushdie launches into his celebrated fantasia of our modernity.
       
      At once a fairy tale, a furious political satire, and a meditation on the ways in which time and change both shape and are shaped by the life of a single ind

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