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020			_a9780099578512
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082			_223 _a823 _bRUSM
100			_aSalman Rushdie _921910
245			_aMidnights children
260			_aLondon _bVintage Books _c2006
300			_axix,647p. _bPB _c10.5x13cm.
365			_2General _a5944 _b₹399.20 _c₹ _d₹499.00 _e20% _f18-02-2022
520			_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
650			_2Literature _aEnglish Fiction _921911
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