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| author = Salman Rushdie
| central theme = The struggles of a newly-independent India
| elevator pitch = The interwoven lives of a group of people born at midnight the very day of India's Independence and that got unusual powers as a result.
| genre =
| publication date = 1981
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|''Jawaharlal Nehru to Saleem Sinai''}}
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The novel is structured as the hastily-written and occasionally verging-on-incoherent autobiography of Saleem Sinai, born <ref>sort of</ref> into a wealthy Indian Muslim family at precisely midnight on 15th August 1947<ref>the exact point in time at which India became independent from the British Empire</ref>. This results in Saleem and 1,000 other children born between midnight and one a.m. developing odd supernatural powers, with those born closest to midnight being the most powerful. The three children born at midnight exactly have the strongest powers of all: Saleem, whose telepathy manifests at the age of nine and allows him initially to read everyone's thoughts and later to telepathically connect the five hundred and eighty-one surviving midnight's children; the self-explanatory Parvati-the-witch; and Shiva, whose powers are never described in great detail but whose name - the destroyer - he lives up to.
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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Saleem, on occasion, although he's quite upfront about his own fallibility.
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