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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the precise instant India becomes independent, and Salman Rushdie ties his life to the nation’s from that second onward. Saleem discovers he shares his birth-hour with a thousand other children scattered across the country, each marked with some power tied to how close to midnight they arrived, and his own gift — telepathy — connects him to all of them. The novel follows Saleem’s life as a running commentary on India’s turbulent postcolonial decades, and it won the Booker Prize in 1981.