TY - BOOK AU - Rushdie,Salman AU - Reade,Simon AU - Supple,Tim TI - Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children SN - 9780099578512 AV - PR6068.U757 M5 2003 U1 - 823.914 R952m 1995 20 PY - 1995///] CY - New York PB - Modern Library KW - Infants switched at birth KW - Drama KW - Islam KW - Relations KW - Hinduism KW - Children of the rich KW - Poor children KW - Supernatural KW - India N1 - Stage adaptation of Rushdie's novel Midnight's children; DELL N2 - "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. Midnight'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, Midnight's Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country'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."--BOOK JACKET ER -