{"product_id":"2026200012362-secondhand-midnights-children","title":"Midnight's Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn at the exact moment of India's independence from British rule, Saleem Sinai — the narrator of Midnight's Children — discovers that he is one of 1,001 children born in that fateful hour, each gifted with extraordinary supernatural powers, and that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his newly born nation. Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning masterwork chronicles Saleem's picaresque journey across the Indian subcontinent, weaving together the tumultuous events of post-Partition India — from the chaos of Partition itself, through the Emergency of the 1970s — with the intimate, often absurdist drama of one sprawling family's fate.\n\nWritten in a rich, maximalist prose that draws deeply on the traditions of both Western modernism and South Asian oral storytelling, Midnight's Children stands as one of the defining works of postcolonial literature. Rushdie's style — exuberant, digressive, and gloriously unreliable — mirrors the very act of nation-building, presenting history not as a fixed record but as a contested, memory-laden narrative. The New York Times declared that the literary map of India is about to be redrawn, and decades on, that verdict has only been confirmed: this is a novel that permanently altered what literature in English could be, and the question of what Saleem's powers will ultimately cost him lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130926342363,"sku":"2026200012362-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/717805fa-e6f7-4832-9518-5a575a13ad43.png?v=1786592372","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012362-secondhand-midnights-children","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}