English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1715 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Midnight's Children
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The idea
Midnight's Children, of nineteen eighty-one, won the Booker Prize. Narrated by Saleem Sinai, it is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story of India's passage to independence, in which children born at midnight on the fifteenth of August nineteen forty-seven are telepathically linked.
In practice
Children born with a nation.
Where people slip
The narrator's life mirrors India's.
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