Midnight’s Children

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of India’s independence, and his life is chained to the country’s history; a thousand other children born in that hour share strange gifts. Rushdie writes in a crowded, comic, pickling voice that mixes English with the rhythms of Bombay. It won the Booker Prize; its energy is enormous and occasionally exhausting.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian.

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