Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India, which took place at midnight on 15 August 1947. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, a telepath with an extraordinary nose. The novel is divided into three books.

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The 50th greatest fiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 2nd on The Greatest 20th Century Novels (Waterstone)
2. - 3rd on Top 10 British, Irish or Commonwealth Novels from 1980 to 2005 (The Observer)
3. - 7th on The Ideal Library (Book)
4. - 25th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
5. - 28th on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
6. - 41st on 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction (Larry McCaffery)
7. - 43rd on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
8. - 46th on The 100 Greatest British Novels (BBC)
9. - 53rd on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning)
10. - 58th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
11. - 67th on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
12. - 71st on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
13. - 90th on The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
14. - 94th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
15. - 100th on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
16. - 100th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (Le Monde)
17. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
18. - Man Booker Prize (Man Booker Prize)
19. - 25 acclaimed international writers choose 25 of the best books from the last 25 years (Wasafiri Magazine)
20. - Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
21. - The 80 Books Every Man Should Read (Esquire)
22. - Third World Novels… The Top 10 (New Internationalist)
23. - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
24. - From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
25. - Best Books Ever (bookdepository.com)
26. - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
27. - 100 Best Novels Written in English (The Guardian)
28. - TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)	Paperback	31264	$8.99	$2.06	2006
	Midnight's Children	Paperback	640890	$4.61	$0.01	1991
	Midnight's Children	Audio CD	1224385	$43.97	$52.09	2009
	Midnight's Children	Mass Market Paperback	874617		$1.98
	Midnight's Children: Great Books Edition (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)	Paperback	755018	$9.25	$0.01	2000
	MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN	Hardcover	2680182	$104.75	$18.45	1981
	Mitternachtskinder	Paperback	8559139		$11.17	2005
	Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library Classics)	Hardcover	3105808	$14.72	$14.71	1995
	Midnight's Children	Hardcover	1843081		$6.49
	Midnight's Children	Audio CD	4283029		$99.95
	Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)	Hardcover	207682	$19.76	$2.10	1995
	Midnight's Children: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation	Audible Audio Edition	21376	$14.92		2017
	Bache-haye Nimeh Shab (Persian Edition): Persian Translation of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie	Paperback	9439564	$24.00		2018
	Midnight's Children	Paperback	1321598		$0.01
	Midnight's Children	Paperback	910912	$11.72	$1.70	1995
	Hijos de la medianoche/ Midnight's Children (Spanish Edition)	Hardcover	4838214		$24.00	2009
	Midnight's Children	Kindle Edition	26307	$13.99		2010
	Hijos de la medianoche (Spanish Edition)	Kindle Edition	801953			2011
	Hijos de la medianoche / Midnight's Children (Spanish Edition)	Mass Market Paperback	2065516	$10.20	$8.65	2016
	Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library (Paperback))	Kindle Edition	2897636	$8.99		2009
	Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library (Paperback))	Paperback	830084	$9.95	$2.99	2003