Midnight Children
edit: won the "booker of booker" prize (the best book out of all the booker prize winners over the past 40 years)
edit: won the "booker of booker" prize (the best book out of all the booker prize winners over the past 40 years)
The postmodernists call it "post-colonial magical realism", because they can't admit that it's just fantasy written by a good author (who writes very pretty prose) who likes character development more than sword-fights.
Think of "the literary establishment" as Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Don't let their posturing put you off.