Winner of the 1981 Booker Prize and an overnight bestseller, Midnight’s Children imagines an India where children born at midnight on the day it becomes an independent nation have special powers.
Winner of the 1981 Booker Prize and an overnight bestseller, Midnight’s Children imagines an India where children born at midnight on the day it becomes an independent nation have special powers. Salman Rushdie weaves real historical events with magical realism to create a brilliant allegory for postcolonial India and Indian national identity. It’s no wonder the novel has been awarded the Best of the Booker prize— twice, in 1993 and again in 2008.