This well-preserved beautiful edition is in near fine condition. The pages are tight, the book is tight, firm, and in good condition. Midnight’s Children is a novel by Salman Rushdie, first published in 1981. Widely considered a modern classic, it is one of the greatest works of contemporary literature. The novel won the Booker Prize and was later awarded the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and 2008, recognizing it as the best Booker Prize-winning novel of the award’s first 25 and 40 years.