Midnight's Children
By: Salman Rushdie.
Edition: 12th printing
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780140132700
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Infants switched at birth -- Fiction; Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism -- Fiction; Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction; Children of the rich -- Fiction; Poor children -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; India -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other "midnight's children"--all born in the initial hour of India's independence--and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious. 

Ebullient, operatic, comic, and serious, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast and complicated land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy, Indian-style.
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Table of contents: title: 1: Perforated sheet --; title: Mercurochrome --; title: Hit-the-spittoon --; title: Under the carpet --; title: Public announcement --; title: Many-headed monsters --; title: Methwold --; title: Tick, tock --; title: 2: Fisherman's pointing finger --; title: Snakes and ladders --; title: Accident in a washing-chest --; title: All-India radio --; title: Love in Bombay --; title: My tenth birthday --; title: At the pioneer cafe --; title: Alpha and Omega --; title: Kolynos kid --; title: Commander Sabarmati's baton --; title: Revelations --; title: Movements performed by pepperpots --; title: Drainage and the desert --; title: Jamila singer --; title: How Saleem achieved purity --; title: 3: Buddha --; title: In the sundarbans --; title: Sam and the tiger --; title: Shadow of the mosque --; title: Wedding --; title: Midnight --; title: Abracadabra.