Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities<\/p>\n
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes<\/b><\/p>\n
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
'Rushdie’s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed' Financial Times<\/i>, *Books of the Year*<\/p>\n
'One of the most important voices in contemporary literature' Independent<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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