The Eleventh Hour

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<p><b>Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities<br><br><i>If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.</i><br><br>'Salman Rushdie is a genius' A.M. Homes</b><br><br>Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of <i>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? <i>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.<br><br><b>'Rushdie's wry sense of mischief remains undimmed' <i>Financial Times</i>, *Books of the Year*<br><br>'One of the most important voices in contemporary literature' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>'Rushdie has not just enlarged literature's capacities, he has expanded the world's imaginative possibilities' <i>The Times</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787336056

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

213 x 135 x 23 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd