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*Midnight's Children* is a work by author Salman Rushdie. The piece was first published in 1981. It has been released in 71 different editions. An audio recording of the work was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 15, 2017, from 07:15PM to 08:00PM BST. The title is referenced by 277 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Cover artist
- Bill Botten
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Magic realism , historiographic metafiction
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback and paperback)
- Isbn
- 0-224-01823-X
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Narrative location
- India
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- form of creative work
- novel
- title
- Mitternachtskinder
- publication date
- 1981-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- derivative work
- Midnight's Children
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Encyclopedic overview
Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 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. 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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Midnight's Children” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.