Midnight's Children

That moment matches India's independence from British rule, so the children are symbolically tied to the birth of the nation. Saleem Sinai, the narrator, is born at the exact stroke of midnight and develops a telepathic link with other midnight-born children.

Saleem has telepathic abilities that allow him to hear and connect with other children born around the time of Indian independence. His unusually large nose is also important to the novel's comic, symbolic, and bodily style.

The novel mixes real historical events, including Partition and the Emergency, with impossible or fantastical elements. Salman Rushdie uses Saleem's supernatural connections to turn modern Indian history into a personal and national myth.

Yes. Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and later won the Booker of Bookers, a special award chosen from previous Booker winners.