- Paperback
- 647
- Midnight's Children
- Salman Rushdie
- English
- 05 May 2019
- 9780099578512
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Download Midnight's ChildrenDownload Midnight's Children Read & download Á Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie ñ 6 Read & download Saleem Sinai was born at midnight the midnight of India's independence and found himself mysteriously handcuffed to history by the coincidence He is one of 1001 children b. Midnight s Children is an absolute masterful piece of writing It is entertaining intelligent informative progressive and even funny it is an astoundingly well balanced epic that captures the birth of a new independent nation I hold it in such high regard The children are all fractured and divided they are born into a new country that is yet to define itself in the wake of colonialism it has no universal language religion or culture The children reflect this they are spread out and unconnected to each other As such Rushdie raises a critical uestion does India even exist These children are born on the night of India s independence but what exactly are they born into The mass of land they occupy is yet to establish what it now is it is something new a place with an internal battle raging between modernisation and tradition It s not the India it was the day before and it s certainly not th