A character in this novel receives a cryptic telegram saying that another has suffered a "heartboot.
A character in this novel receives a cryptic telegram saying that another has suffered a "heartboot." This novel's protagonist describes being cured of typhus using snake venom in a chapter about the board game Snakes and Ladders. After a character in this novel recognizes the taste of a green chutney, he finds his old nanny working as a manager of a pickle factory, under the name Ms. Braganza. In this novel, the beautiful singing voice of the protagonist's sister causes her to become known as "Jamila Singer", thus supplanting her earlier nickname "Brass Monkey." A baby nicknamed "Shiva of the Knees" was switched at birth with this novel's protagonist, who has a telepathic nose. For 10 points, Saleem Sinai is one of many born on the hour of India's independence, in what novel by Salman Rushdie?
A character in this novel receives a cryptic telegram saying that another has suffered a "heartboot.
Midnight's Children