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| Author | Salman Rushdie |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Bill Botten |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Magic realism, historiographic metafiction |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 446 |
| ISBN | 0-224-01823-X |
| OCLC | 8234329 |
Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.
Midnight's Children sold over one million copies in the UK alone and won the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.[1] It was also awarded the special Booker of Bookers prize in 1993, and the Best of the Booker in 2008, to celebrate the Booker Prize's 25th and 40th anniversaries.[2][3][4][5] In 2003 the novel appeared at number 100 on the BBC's The Big Read poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels" of all time.[6]
- ^ Mullan, John. "Salman Rushdie on the writing of Midnight's Children." The Guardian, 26 July 2008.
- ^ "Midnight's Children wins the Best of the Booker". The Man Booker Prizes. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008.
- ^ "Rushdie wins Best of Booker prize". BBC News. 10 July 2008.
- ^ "The Big Read". BBC. April 2003. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "The Big Jubilee Read". The Reading Agency. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003, Retrieved 17 August 2022