Midnight's Children is a novel written by Salman Rushdie. Released in 1981, it tells of a man whose life intersects with the formation of India as a nation.
Characters[]
- Saleem Sinai
- Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
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Publisher's summary[]
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. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1981 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes of the emergence of a country |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1993 | Another major work of Indian literature |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes |
| Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter | 1984 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 1959 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2002 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes |
| A Universal History of Infamy | Jorge Luis Borges | 1935 | Another work of magical realism with similar themes |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads