![]() ![]() ![]() Midnight's Kid depicts the journey of India from British rule to self-reliance and after that partition. ![]() The book was released in 1999 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has actually sold over 15 million copies worldwide. The stories are based on lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are lost between the two cultures. This is a collection of 9 stories by Lahiri. The story narrated in 3rd individual is embeded in Kerala, and occurs in 1969. The book was granted the Booker Prize in 1997 and is Roy's only released book so far. The debut novel by Roy, which took almost 4 years to complete is a story of fraternal twins and how small things make a big distinction in individuals's lives and behavior. ![]()
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