The document provides information about Salman Rushdie and his most important novel, The Midnight's Children. It summarizes that Rushdie was born in India in 1947 to a Muslim family and later moved to England for school. The protagonist of The Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai, was born on August 15, 1947 along with 1001 other children who were born at the moment of India's independence and possessed special powers. Saleem wishes to tell his life story quickly like Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights because he does not have much time, mirroring the limited years of the 1001 children.