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is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance

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The Love-charm of Bombs is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick [1995] paperback HORRO the Lady Ghislaine'India has produced a great novelist a master of perpetual storytelling' V. S. Pritchett, New Yorker Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem's life takes some