Midnight's Children

1981 · Book · magic realist fiction, historical fiction

Salman Rushdie

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Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. In the way it interweaves a personal with a national biography it has similarities to Günter Grass's The Tin Drum.

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Type: Book
Release date: January 1, 1981
Genres: magic realist fiction, historical fiction
Created by: Salman Rushdie
Countries: United Kingdom