by Salman Rushdie · Penguin USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099578512
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«Midnight's Children» is Salman Rushdie's magic realist novel, published in paperback (672 pages, in English).
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on the day India gains independence and discovers that his telepathic gift connects him to the other thousand children born at that hour, all with extraordinary talents. His life becomes intertwined with the country's history in a family saga spanning the Indian twentieth century, addressing identity, destiny, and nation.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981, it was later distinguished with the Booker of Bookers Prize (1993) and the Best of the Booker (2008).
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and magic realism; also a common choice for book clubs.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
