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Name: Midnight's Children
Author: Salman Rushdie
Year: 1981
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Popularity: 8.6
Genres/categories: Classic, Award winners, Fantasy, Contemporary
Culture: India

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ISBN:
9780099578512
9780606222051
9780613173742
9780812976533
0099578514
0140132708
0606222057
0613173740
0812976533
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for best original English-language novel in 1981.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1981.
Winner of the The Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993.
Winner of the The Best of the Booker award in 2008.

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
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