Midnight's Children

India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked.

But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem's life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India. It is a great gift, and a terrible burden.

Caci el este unul dintre cei 1.001 de copii nascuti la miezul noptii, copii care au toti daruri speciale, copii cu care Saleem este legat telepatic. Dar a existat o confuzie groaznica la nastere, iar viata lui Saleem ia niste intorsaturi neasteptate.