India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight's Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
Totally different to anything I'd read before: hilarious at times,
frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our
lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney
*Skinny*
A wonderful, rich and humane novel that is safe to call a
classic.
*Guardian*
Midnight's Children is also full of such zest for every messy
aspect of life that you can't help but feel inspired
*Guardian*
Rushdie’s novel took a post-colonial “empire fights back” spirit,
and a deep personal understanding of the politics of Indian
partition, and exploded them into something teeming with
imaginative life… He inhabits a hybrid consciousness, with a
telepathic connection to the other children of midnight, and tells
its stories for all he is worth.
*Observer*
The extraordinary alchemy of Midnight’s Children was its miraculous
fusion of the fantastical and the historical.
*Evening Standard*
A magical-realist reflection of the issues India faced
post-independence including culture, language, religion, and
politics… It’s a truly incredible work.
*Verdict*
A head-spinning tale... Rushdie's masterpiece virtually invented a
new language for Anglo-Indian literature
*Reader's Digest*
Totally different to anything I'd read before: hilarious at times,
frustrating at times, exploring how history is linked into our
lives, plus lots of metaphors about chutney
*Skinny*
Fresh and witty
*Eastern Eye*
One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking
world in this generation
*The New York Review of Books*
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