The Eleventh Hour
$29.64
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2025
Summary
The Eleventh Hour: Short Stories on Life, Death, and Legacy
Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory City.
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336050 |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 21mm |
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The Eleventh Hour is a book of five stories about ageing and dying… It might sound bleak, but the writing is funny and frisky, full of pace and panache * Sunday Times *Entertaining and winningly heartfelt * Daily Telegraph *Compelling * London Standard *
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
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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