Midnight's Children A Novel

In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling. The New Yorker

A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie s prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself. Newsweek

Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance. The Washington Post Book World

Pure story an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy. Chicago Sun-Times

This brash, knowing, massive, aggressive novel is to modern India what Günter Grass s The Tin Drum is to modern Germany. The New York Times Book Review

Dazzling . . . In combining past with present, nostalgic realism with mythic overtones, specific detail with complex and binding narrative devices, Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction. The Philadelphia Inquirer