SHIP OF THESEUS, STILL FROM FILM. COURTESY: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL – TAASA Review September 2013

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This article was originally found in the September 2013 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 23).

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Midnight’s Children is an established classic.

It won the Booker Prize in 1981, and scored again both in 1993 and in 2008 with the `Best of the Booker’ prizes.

On paper it seemed likely its complexity and brilliance would be recreated on film...