Midnight's children and Satanic verses

This is Saleem Sinai's story, who was born in Bombay at about the midnight of 15th August, 1947, just at the same moment when India is getting her independence. Saleem's destiny is linked to the destiny of India, and his personal achievements will show the politic evolution of India or the politic evolution will show his acievements.                     It's a gifted man's story but it´s a generation and family's story , as well ; which turn this story into a whole portrayal of a generation and culture.

The winner of Booker of Bookers is an amazing novel which has got magic and humor, politic fantasy and humanity.

This is Gibrel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha's story. Gibrel is a legendary actor in Bollywood, and Saladin is an autodidact and an anglophil. The story starts when they where travelling and their plane explodes, making them fall into the sea. They achieve to arrive to a beach, and they note that their bodies are changing. One of them acquires an aureole, and the other sees with horror how it starts to grow hair in his legs, their feets turn into a helmets...

After that, they realize that they've been chosen to embody the fight between the good and the evil.