- literary fiction, telepathy, epic literature, epic fiction
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 580
- Publisher
- Atlas-Contact, Vintage, David Campbell
- Editions
- 86
- Language
- Hindi, Chinese, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781283999816
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“I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.”
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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