The second novel by the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. Its narrator, Saleem Sinai, is one of many children born in the first hour of India's independence on 15 August 1947, each gifted with a unique power, and his life is presented as bound up allegorically with the fate of the newly independent nation through the partition, wars and political upheavals that follow; the novel won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later named the best Booker winner of the prize's first twenty-five and, separately, fifty years. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why is the novel called Midnight's Children?
It refers to children born in the first hour of Indian independence on 15 August 1947 who have special powers.
The title refers to the children born in India in the first hour of independence. The narrator Saleem Sinai is born precisely at midnight on 15 August 1947, exactly as old as independent India. He later discovers that all children born in India between midnight and one in the morning on that date are imbued with special powers.
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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.
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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition.
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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events.
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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.
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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1981.
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