Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieWinner of the Booker of Bookers. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well being are inextricably bound to those of his

it's not quite as dreamy as she'd hoped

of the history of her proud family

"What is music

In this moving story two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives

the excitement of temptation

which is memory

WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE WORLD was updated extensively by the author in 2004

" and if so

The sixth - and final - instalment of the inimitable SPELLSLINGER series

sees something she shouldn’t

Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread

and kill them both