Review: Midnight's Children

The previous post's image felt about right as a review, although admittedly a little light on critical engagement. A month later, I've got nothing to add.

I've seriously been racking my brain, attempting to come up with something to say about Midnight's Children. Something that hasn't been said before. And better. By someone else.

Nothing doing, I'm afraid.

Midnight's Children is everything you've heard. It's "huge, vital, engrossing ... in all senses a fantastic book" (Sunday Times). It's "the literary map of India [...] redrawn" and "a country finding its voice" (New York Times). And yes, London Review of Books, it's a "brilliant and endearing novel."

It took the Booker in 1981, when it was published. It took the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and again in 2008. It's on Time's Top 100 Novels since 1923 List.

How could I give it anything other than Five Strings?

XOXO