My last nomination is
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize winner of 1981, Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 and The Best of the Booker in 2008. The pro is that I liked the premise of the plot. The con is that it is 647 pages and a slower read.
From Goodreads:
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Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
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