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Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s Children

Author(s): Salman Rushdie

Location(s): India

Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction

Era(s): 1940s

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Saleem’s birth is normal in every way apart from the accident of timing which is the premise of the title. It is an allegory for the birth and development of a nation.

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‘In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist- one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.” – The New Yorker

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