Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick [1995] paperback HORRO The Love-charm of Bombs is

The Love-charm of Bombs is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen

but also one in which the author

the Lady Ghislaine

and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted

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Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick [1995] paperback HORRO The Love-charm of Bombs is'India has produced a great novelist a master of perpetual storytelling' V. S. Pritchett, New Yorker Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem's life takes some