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Born at the exact moment of India’s independence, August 15, 1947, Saleem Sinai enters the world celebrated and recognized by Prime Minister Nehru himself. This momentous birth bestows upon Saleem extraordinary abilities: telepathic powers connecting him with a thousand other children born in the same pivotal hour of India’s independence, and a remarkable sense of smell that alerts him to hidden dangers. Saleem’s life story, inextricably bound to his nation’s, unfolds as a captivating journey through triumphs and disasters, mirroring the tumultuous and magnificent history of modern India.
About the Author
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, Shame, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The Satanic Verses, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which won the Writer’s Guild Award and The Moor’s Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East, West, a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile, a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands and a work of film criticism The Wizard of Oz. His most recent novel is The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which was published in 1999.Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany’s Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight’s Children was voted the ‘Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.
Science Fiction
Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction
9780099578512 ISBN
Salman Rushdie Book Author
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