Children — Midnight's

" Midnight’s Children ," Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece of and postcolonial literature , tells the story of India's birth through the life of Saleem Sinai. Born at the exact moment of India's independence on August 15, 1947, Saleem is "handcuffed to history," his life intimately and fantastically connected to the nation’s destiny. Midnight's Children - Chris Reads