Midnight's Children

by Rushdie, Salman

• ISBN13: 9780140132700
• ISBN10: 0140132708
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Table of Contents

Book One	1	(138)
The Perforated Sheet	3	(18)
Mercurochrome	21	(16)
Hit-the-Spittoon	37	(18)
Under the Carpet	55	(16)
A Public Announcement	71	(18)
Many-headed Monsters	89	(16)
Methwold	105	(18)
Tick, Tock	123	(16)
Book Two	139	(272)
The Fisherman's Pointing Finger	141	(20)
Snakes and Ladders	161	(16)
Accident in a Washing-chest	177	(20)
All-India Radio	197	(18)
Love in Bombay	215	(16)
My Tenth Birthday	231	(18)
At the Pioneer Cafe	249	(18)
Alpha and Omega	267	(18)
The Kolynos Kid	285	(18)
Commander Sabarmati's Baton	303	(18)
Revelations	321	(18)
Movements Performed by Pepperpots	339	(14)
Drainage and the Desert	353	(14)
Jamila Singer	367	(24)
How Saleem Achieved Purity	391	(20)
Book Three	411	(2)
The Buddha	413	(18)
In the Sundarbans	431	(16)
Sam and the Tiger	447	(12)
The Shadow of the Mosque	459	(24)
A Wedding	483	(20)
Midnight	503	(26)
Abracadabra	529