01310nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200180009110000190010924500230012826000320015130000300018336500620021352008210027565000320109620220303124905.0220225b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780099578512  cAL  aeng  223a823bRUSM  aSalman Rushdie  aMidnights children  aLondonbVintage Booksc2006  axix,647p.bPBc10.5x13cm.  2Generala5944b₹399.20c₹d₹499.00e20%f18-02-2022  aIndia has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem’s life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India.t is a great gift, and a terrible burden  2LiteratureaEnglish Fiction