Midnight’s Children is an epic book from the great mind a great story teller, Salman Rushdie. We all know he is a controversial author for few, about his problems for writing a book, but I am not here for that famous of his, I am for here to write about what I consider his real epic masterpiece.
It is not an easy book, its narration is different from others but it is an epic achievement, superbly written and enticing. It is a Fantasy book? Absolutely not!
It is an historical book? Absolutely not!
It is a human one.
It tells the story of... what? India? Pakistan? People? The human growth? Of coming of age? Is it about the magic in each of us? About castes and 'special' people?
It tells it all and more.
It is a deeply difficult book, which goes from politics to religions via colonialism, independence spirit, it is about growing and finally walking along on your own as much as it is about disappointment and hopes... It is many things at the same time, perfectly overlapping.
It is simply superb.
If you want to read something and you have an open mind, read it. Accept what it is saying page after page and think at the many layers this work gives to your brain to think about.
Go for it. You won't regret. It will bring you in an enchanting and enchanted world, surrounding you with the complex realities of the India independence from the UK, how it learnt to go on its own, with its problems and pain, sometimes stupidly self inflicted and perfectly avoidable with a bit of reasoning. Yet in the book you have strength, perseverance and still the desire to look back. It is about the soul of a nation, forming on a millennia old one, thus it is a consuming and abusing process on it is own self.
It is a book to enjoy through the narration and the lives of the Children of the Midnight of Independence.
I give 
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