Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children is a 1980 novel by Salman Rushdie. It centres on the author's native India and was acclaimed as a major milestone in Post-colonial Literature. Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India, which took place at midnight on 15 August 1947. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, a telepath with a nasal defect, who is born at the exact moment that India becomes independent. Saleem Sinai's life then parallels the changing fortunes of the country after independence.