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The infant Saleem is switched at birth with Shiva, who was born a few minutes later.
Book 1, Tick, TockSaleem experiences his sexual awakening in the washing-chest while watching his mother undress.
Book 2, Accident in a Washing-chestSaleem, at home in bed, hears the midnight children speak to him for the first time.
Book 2, All-India RadioSaleem discovers Amina Sinai's connection to her first husband, a communist organizer.
Book 2, At the Pioneer CaféSaleem's family learns that his blood type does not match theirs.
Book 2, Alpha and OmegaSaleem, appalled by the adultery of neighbors, shares with Amina his awareness of her deception.
Book 2, Commander Sabarmati's BatonAmina Sinai and her children move to Karachi in what Saleem calls his "second exile."
Book 2, Movements Performed by PepperpotsSaleem, hit by flying debris, loses his memory.
Book 2, How Saleem Achieved PuritySaleem, a tracker for the Pakistani army, surveys the results of the massacre at Dacca.
Book 3, The BuddhaParvati-the-witch recognizes Saleem and calls him by name.
Book 3, Sam and the TigerThe Emergency, India's rebirth, is declared, and Aadam Sinai is born.
Book 3, A WeddingSaleem returns to Bombay with the snake charmer, Picture Singh.
Book 3, AbracadabraAfter finding Padma at the pickle factory, Padma and Saleem marry.
Book 3, Abracadabra| Book | Summary |
|---|---|
| Book 1, The Perforated Sheet | Saleem Sinai describes the historical impact of the date and time of his birth: midnight on August 15, 1947, the moment ... Read More |
| Book 1, Mercurochrome | Saleem Sinai continues his narrative in the presence of Padma, a maker of chutney who is also his loving companion. Padm... Read More |
| Book 1, Hit-the-Spittoon | At the opening of this chapter Saleem Sinai claims to be falling apart. His body is "coming apart at the seams." And his... Read More |
| Book 1, Under the Carpet | Aadam Aziz suffered the defeat of the Hummingbird and this early prospect for partition by burying himself in his work a... Read More |
| Book 1, A Public Announcement | The chapter opens in January 1947 and is situated historically in descriptions of the end to colonial rule and the prepa... Read More |
| Book 1, Many-headed Monsters | Two journeys open this chapter, which Saleem Sinai is still relating in flashback. Amina Sinai takes a taxi to the Red F... Read More |
| Book 1, Methwold | The chapter opens with a flashback to a peaceful time before the arrival of the British East India Company and the Briti... Read More |
| Book 1, Tick, Tock | Saleem Sinai recounts the elements of his world beginning with the lives of his grandparents, which he described through... Read More |
| Book 2, The Fisherman's Pointing Finger | The chapter's title refers to a painting on the wall over Saleem Sinai's crib. The section opens with Padma's despair ov... Read More |
| Book 2, Snakes and Ladders | The bad omens that occurred in the months following independence were believed to be divine objections to partition and ... Read More |
| Book 2, Accident in a Washing-chest | Padma has disappeared, and the storyteller has lost his audience. Although there is a substitute chutney stirrer on the ... Read More |
| Book 2, All-India Radio | Padma has not returned, and Saleem Sinai complains of the cracks beginning at his navel and spreading across his body li... Read More |
| Book 2, Love in Bombay | It is "Ramzan, the month of fasting," and the Muslims at Methwold Estates go to the movies to avoid the pangs of hunger—... Read More |
| Book 2, My Tenth Birthday | Padma has returned, declaring her love and carrying with her an herbal potion she has concocted at the advice of a holy ... Read More |
| Book 2, At the Pioneer Café | This chapter in its form is more disconnected than any preceding it. The chapter opens with a change in literary style: ... Read More |
| Book 2, Alpha and Omega | Saleem Sinai sets the story of Evelyn Lilith Burns that he promised to Padma in the context of the aftermath of the gene... Read More |
| Book 2, The Kolynos Kid | In the narrative present Saleem Sinai begins by asserting his place at the center of Indian life. He cites an excerpt fr... Read More |
| Book 2, Commander Sabarmati's Baton | When Mary Pereira returned from exile, her dreams of Joseph D'Costa's ghost resumed. She was shocked to see that the gho... Read More |
| Book 2, Revelations | The chapter opens with the mythology of the birth of Lord Khusro Khusrovani Bhagwan, India's "richest guru," originally,... Read More |
| Book 2, Movements Performed by Pepperpots | Saleem Sinai decided to exclude Shiva from the conference rather than having them discover his true parents. Saleem ackn... Read More |
| Book 2, Drainage and the Desert | India was on the verge of war, and the Sinais were summoned home. Ahmed Sinai had had, according to a telegram received ... Read More |
| Book 2, Jamila Singer | The Sinais moved into the home of Alia Aziz, the embittered Aziz sister who never married. There, Saleem Sinai claimed t... Read More |
| Book 2, How Saleem Achieved Purity | In the opening frame Saleem Sinai, who from early on had announced that he was dying, notes how tired he is and how he c... Read More |
| Book 3, The Buddha | The chapter opens with Padma weeping as Saleem describes the aftermath of the war, which includes his amnesia, the resul... Read More |
| Book 3, In the Sundarbans | The buddha (Saleem Sinai) and his three young friends drifted south in a borrowed boat. Saleem acknowledges that the bud... Read More |
| Book 3, Sam and the Tiger | Sam of the chapter's title is Indian field marshal General Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008), chief of staff of the Indian army ... Read More |
| Book 3, The Shadow of the Mosque | Saleem Sinai is in a rush to complete his story "before memory cracks beyond hope of reassembly." He also acknowledges t... Read More |
| Book 3, A Wedding | Padma is shocked to learn that Saleem Sinai had been married to Parvati-the-witch and accuses him of lying to her. In hi... Read More |
| Book 3, Midnight | This chapter opens with Saleem Sinai's struggle, his wish to continue his story and his unwillingness to relive the horr... Read More |
| Book 3, Abracadabra | Saleem Sinai acknowledges a lie in his narrative; he claims it is the only lie in the story. He has lied about Shiva's d... Read More |
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