The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie

Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.

‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes

Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.

These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.

Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

'Rushdie’s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed' Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

'One of the most important voices in contemporary literature' Independent

‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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ISBN 13	9781787336049
ISBN 10	1787336042
Title	The Eleventh Hour
Author	Salman Rushdie
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2025-11-04
Number of pages	240
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