Midnight's Children

Description

Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books. ---------- Contains: [Midnight's Children (2/2)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24710315W)

Description

"A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947-and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones." (From the publisher)

First Sentence

I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction.

Series Statement

• Everyman's Library No. 217

Other Editions

• Midnight's ChildrenHardcoverAlfred A. Knopf1995-01-01
• Midnight's childrenAvon1982-01-01
• MitternachtskinderHardcoverPiper1983-01-01
• Middnatts BarnHardcoverAschehoug1989-01-01
• Midnight's ChildreneBookRandom House Trade Paperbacks1991-01-01
• Dzieci północyDom Wydawniczy Rebis1999-01-01