By Salman Rushdie, 2006

ISBN 0812976533

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. He is fated to experience all the major events, good and bad, in the newborn state's history.

Saleem has the power to communicate telepathically with other Indian children born in that momentous minute, and together the stories of the midnight's children form the tapestry of India's first fifty years. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the "Booker of Bookers" in 1993.

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