Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Saleem was born at the midnight of India's independence, and found himself "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent. This novel won the 1981 Booker Prize.

Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Tales; The Moor's Last Sigh; The Ground Under Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Enchantress of Florence; The Enchant Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Over This Line are among his nonfiction works, and he coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Tales 2008. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rushdie, a former president of the PEN American Center, was knighted in 2007 for his contributions to literature.

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ISBN 13	9780224038294
ISBN 10	022403829X
Title	Midnight's Children
Author	Salman Rushdie
Series	Booker Prize Anniversary Edition S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1993-09-16
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Winner of Booker of Bookers 1993, Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1981, Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1981, Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
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