Practice modes
Languages & Literature
Pakistan
World & History
Saleem Sinai, born at midnight on 15 August 1947, is linked by telepathy to 1,000 other children born in that first hour. His life mirrors India's history, including Partition, the 1965 and 1971 wars and the Emergency, and part of the story is set in Pakistan.
Won the Booker Prize (1981) and was later named the 'Booker of Bookers'; its hero is born at the moment of India's independence.