Midnight’s Children is one of the vast and though-provoking books I have ever gone through. It is a’ booker of bookers’ prize winning book by the eminent writer, Salman Rushdie. The vastness and the detailing provided by the author not merely make us spellbound but also shock our constructed view about an Indian novel. The way Rushdie plays with magic realism, with hindi, urdu, gujrati words is more than amazing.
Rushdie’s analogy of the’perforated sheet’ in describing Saleem’s grandmother, his grandfather’s disturbing nose -all those private things get merged with the public affairs like the Independence of India, the period of Emergency etc. Above all, it is a great work; although at first one may find it too complex to understand, but later when he or she would go between the lines, he or she would be able to gratify its true literary taste.