Midnight's Children

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Cape, 1981 - Fiction - 446 pages
Saleem was born at the midnight of India's independence, and found himself "handcuffed to history" by this coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with magical gifts.

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The Perforated Sheet II
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Mercurochrome
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HittheSpittoon
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Copyright

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About the author (1981)

Salman Rushdie was born in India on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Pakistan and educated in England. His novels include Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and The Golden House. His non-fiction works include Joseph Anton, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step across This Line. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled East, West. He has received numerous awards including the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel twice, the James Tait Black Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children, and the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize.

Bibliographic information

TitleMidnight's Children
Booker prize for fiction
James Tait Black memorial prize. Fiction 1981
Volume 90 of Modern Library 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
AuthorSalman Rushdie
Edition5, reprint
PublisherCape, 1981
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMay 23, 2008
ISBN022401823X, 9780224018234
Length446 pages
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