Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947. His second novel, the critically acclaimed and award-winning Midnight's Children, was published in 1991. Among its honours, it was pronounced the 'Booker of the Bookers,' which recognized it as the best example of that illustrious prize. Malcolm Bradley in The Modern British Novel pronounced the book "a new start for the late-twentieth-century novel."... Read More