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Midnight's Children

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Literature Atlas. "Midnight's Children." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/midnights-children.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Midnight's Children. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/midnights-children

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@misc{literatureatlas-midnight-s-children,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Midnight's Children},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/midnights-children},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The second novel by the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. Its narrator, Saleem Sinai, is one of many children born in the first hour of India's independence on 15 August 1947, each gifted with a unique power, and his life is presented as bound up allegorically with the fate of the newly independent nation through the partition, wars and political upheavals that follow; the novel won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later named the best Booker winner of the prize's first twenty-five and, separately, fifty years.

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Composed, From (Year)

from 1981 1

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