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Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

A magical realist novel following Saleem Sinai, born at the precise moment of India's independence on August 15, 1947, whose life becomes mysteriously intertwined with the fate of his nation. The narrative weaves together family history, personal destiny, and historical events across generations in Kashmir and India.

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What this book knows

Identity is a country that history invents and unmakes: to be born at independence is to carry a nation's fractures in your own flesh.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Absent

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self-and-identity

as a result of a jolt received in a bicycle-accident, I, Saleem Sinai, became aware of them all… the children of midnight had grown up quite unaware of their true siblings
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my inheritance grows, to include an optimism disease… and cracks in the earth which will-be-have-been reborn in my skin
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from the moment of my conception, it seems, I have been public property… the baby she was carrying did not turn out to be her son
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That afternoon, the streets are suddenly full of people… 'This affair isn't finished. We can't go: they may need doctors again.'
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embodiment

a badly-fitting collage of her severally-inspected parts… waking and sleeping he could feel in his fingertips the softness of her ticklish skin
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Baby Saleem's nose: it was monstrous; and it ran… my bulby temples, even the rampant cucumber of the nose
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