Title: Midnights's Children (533p)
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year Published: 1991
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telephatic powers that connect him with 1000 other "midnight's children" -all born in the initial hour of India's independence- and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others can't perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India as its most impossible and glorious.
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