The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories, From the Booker Prize Winning Author, Salman Rushdie | A Literary Fiction Exploring Mortality, Legacy & the Human Spirit
Author: Rushdie, Salman
Brand: Penguin
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 264
Release Date: 10-11-2025
Details: Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to lifeās final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his workāIndia, England, and the USāand feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
āIn the Southā introduces a pair of quarrelsome old menāJunior and Seniorāand their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In āThe Musician of Kahaniā, a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnightās Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In āLateā, the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. āOklahomaā plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And āThe Old Man in the Piazzaā is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our āeleventh hourā in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we donāt know the end of our own stories? 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.
EAN: 9780143476955
Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
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Author: Rushdie, Salman
Brand: Penguin
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 264
Release Date: 10-11-2025
Details: Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to lifeās final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his workāIndia, England, and the USāand feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
āIn the Southā introduces a pair of quarrelsome old menāJunior and Seniorāand their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In āThe Musician of Kahaniā, a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnightās Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In āLateā, the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. āOklahomaā plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And āThe Old Man in the Piazzaā is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our āeleventh hourā in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we donāt know the end of our own stories? 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.
EAN: 9780143476955
Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
