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'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker

About the Author

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Reviews

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*

'Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers.' Observer

'Huge, vital, engrossing... in all senses a fantastic book.' Sunday Times

'The literary map of India has been redrawn... Midnight's Children sounds like a country finding its voice.' New York Times