Midnight's Children

Summary

Saleem Sinai, born at the precise moment of Indian independence, finds himself telepathically linked to other children of midnight and entangled in the tumultuous decades that follow Partition. Rushdie fuses magical realism, Bombay vernacular and the rhythms of oral storytelling to retell the subcontinent's history through one extravagantly unreliable life. The novel reshaped Anglophone fiction's relationship to India and to history itself, opening the way for a generation of writers.