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Midnight's Children
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028482
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 672

Midnight's Children

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1 May 2008
Hardback
20 Dec 2023
EBook
1 Feb 2011
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24 Nov 1995
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Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion

'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
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028482
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 672
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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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Also by Salman Rushdie

The Eleventh Hour
The Satanic Verses
Knife
Victory City
Languages of Truth
Quichotte
Midnight’s Children
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Praise for Midnight's Children

One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation

The New York Review of Books

Totally different to anything I'd read before: hilarious at times, frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney

Issy Patience, Skinny

A magical-realist reflection of the issues India faced post-independence including culture, language, religion, and politics… It’s a truly incredible work.

Jack Rear, Verdict

The extraordinary alchemy of Midnight’s Children was its miraculous fusion of the fantastical and the historical.

Jereme Boyd Maunsell, Evening Standard

A wonderful, rich and humane novel that is safe to call a classic.

Sam Jordison, Guardian

Rushdie’s novel took a post-colonial "empire fights back" spirit, and a deep personal understanding of the politics of Indian partition, and exploded them into something teeming with imaginative life… He inhabits a hybrid consciousness, with a telepathic connection to the other children of midnight, and tells its stories for all he is worth.

Tim Adams, Observer

Fresh and witty

Neema Shah, Eastern Eye

A head-spinning tale... Rushdie's masterpiece virtually invented a new language for Anglo-Indian literature

John Walsh, Reader's Digest

Midnight's Children is also full of such zest for every messy aspect of life that you can't help but feel inspired

Guardian