Midnight's Children

Synopsis

'india has produced a great novelist. A master of perpetual storytelling' v. S. Pritchett, new yorkerborn at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of india's independence, saleem sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1, 001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and saleem’s life takes some unexpected twists and turns.