Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie which initally won the Man Booker prize in 1981, has won the Best of the Booker this year for the second time, winning the Booker of Bookers in 1993.
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the date on which India proclaimed itself independent from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born with supernatural powers. Two are switched at birth, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the offspring of wealthy Muslims. Rushdie follows them through 30 years of partition, violence and Indira Gandhi's iron-fisted rule.
The other finalists for this honour were...
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell
The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
Salman Rushdie is currently on tour in America with his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence.
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