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Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' Makes Timely Debut

NPR
Published March 30, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Salman Rushdie's novel of war and religious intolerance, Midnight's Children, finds new life on the stage. The adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company makes its American premiere at the University of Michigan. Celeste Headlee reports.

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