How long does it take to read Midnight's Children?
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie takes about 10 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 580 pages, about 159,500 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 86 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books.
Subjects: literary fiction, telepathy, epic fiction, Novel, Rushdie, Salman - Prose & Criticism, Fiction
