Midnight's Children
Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of Indian independence, one of a thousand children given powers by the hour of their birth. Writing at night in a pickle factory and physically coming apart, he races to set down his family's history alongside the country's - Partition, the wars, the Emergency - before he crumbles. A nation told as one unreliable life.
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- influenced by ↑ The Tin Drum
- influenced by ↑ One Hundred Years of Solitude
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