The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdiersquo;s Midnightrsquo;s Children; winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers; the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15; 1947; the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain; 1;001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnightrsquo;s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth.An allegory of modern India; Midnightrsquo;s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the countryrsquo;s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan; the rule of Indira Gandhi; the onset of violence and war; and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale; of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade; Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society; Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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