Global Readers Book Club July | Midnight's Children

Join us for our July Global Readers Book Club meeting!

Global Readers Book Club takes place at AARVEN (34 King Street, Margate) on the last Tuesday of every other month.

Join us on Tuesday 29th July to discuss Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Tickets available now!

The book club is open to everyone and there’s no obligation to read every book or turn up to every meeting, come whenever you like. Entry is a £2 suggested donation, which includes a free tea or coffee, and all proceeds will be donated to our partner charity, African Promise.

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-readers-book-club-july-midnights-children-tickets-1381517880169?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

ABOUT THE BOOK: Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

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