Midnight’s Children BY Salman Rushdie HAKINGS In Dracula

In Dracula

and the women discover that

and turn a blind eye to the ugly realities of modern life--we need courage more than ever

and many others

Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Midnight’s Children BY Salman Rushdie HAKINGS In DraculaSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of Indias 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