Midnights Children Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie 9780099511892, 0099511894 instant download after payment.

The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people - a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Saleem’s life is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible, in Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece. Born at 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 for which Saleem is not prepared: 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 danger imperceptible to others.

“The extravagance of Mr Rushdie’s inventions will call to mind the hovering presence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; call it tropical synchronicity … As a Bombay book, which is to say, a big-city book, Midnight’s Children is coarse, knowing, comfortable with Indian pop culture and, above all, aggressive. Salman Rushdie assumes that the differences between Colaba and Chembur are as important, and can be made as interesting, as the differences between Brooklyn and The Bronx… Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice.”  -  Clark Blaise, The New York Times

Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007. Rushdie is the author of 14 novels and has also written a collection of short stories and four works of non-fiction. He joined the Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in her Platinum Jubilee year.