India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
Salman Rushdie is the author of fifteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). 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.
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*
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