In store now! Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie

Whilst Rushdie remains in the headlines this week, and his controversial novel The Satanic Verses climbs the best-seller charts across the world, we wanted to highlight his earlier, much better work. Midnight’s Children, which won Rushdie the admiration and fame he deserves, is the story of partition, of post-colonialism, of multicultural acceptance, and political tolerance. One of the most significant novels to have emerged from India since the collapse of colonialism, Midnight’s Children is Rushdie’s Magic-Realist tale of revolution and partition; of families rent apart, of loves found and lost, of happiness dissolved and regain, of forging new identities out of the shrapnel of the old. Funny, achingly beautiful, and utterly - completely - full of life.

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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Paperback £9.99

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts.

Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious. 

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