Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie · Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's 1981 novel ties Saleem Sinai's life to India's independence and partition, using magical realism and an unreliable narrator. A central work for seeing how postcolonial fiction rewrites national history from inside rather than reporting it.
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