Midnight's children
By: Salman Rushdie
Edition: Reprint (30)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780140132700
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Poor children; Relations; Fiction; Infants switched at birth; Supernatural; Children of the rich; Hinduism; Islam
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: label: BOOK ONE; label: The Perforated sheet
title: 3; label: Mercurochrome
title: 20; label: Hit-the-Spittoon
title: 36; label: Under the Carpet
title: 53; label: Public Announcement
title: 69; label: Many-headed Monsters
title: 86; label: Methwold
title: 101; label: Tick, Tock
title: 118; label: BOOK TWO; label: Fisherman's Pointing Finger
title: 137; label: Snakes and Ladders
title: 155; label: Accident in a Washing-chest
title: 170; label: All-India Radio
title: 189; label: Love in Bombay
title: 206; label: My Tenth birthday
title: 221; label: At the Pioneer Cafe
title: 238; label: Alpha and Omega
title: 255; label: The Kolynos Kid
title: 272; label: Commander Sabarmati's Baton
title: 289; label: Revelations
title: 306; label: Movements Performed by Pepperpots
title: 323; label: Drainage and the Desert
title: 337; label: Jamila Singer
title: 351; label: How Saleem Achieved Purity
title: 374; label: BOOK THREE; label: The Buddha
title: 397; label: In the Sundarbans
title: 414; label: Sam and the Tiger
title: 430; label: The Shadow of the Mosque
title: 442; label: A Wedding
title: 465; label: Midnight
title: 485; label: Abracadabra
title: 510