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The eleventh hour : a quintet of stories
Rushdie, Salman2025
Large Print
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work - India, England and America - and feature an unforgettable cast of characters. 'In the South' introduces a pair of quarrelsome old men and their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In 'The Musician of Kahani', a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighbourhood featured in Midnight's Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In 'Late', the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. 'Oklahoma' plunges a young writer into a web of deceit as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And 'The Old Man in the Piazza' is a powerful parable about freedom of speech. Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don't 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.
Main title:
The eleventh hour : a quintet of stories / Salman Rushdie.
Author:
Rushdie, Salman, author
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
New York, NY : Random House Large Print, [2025]©2025
Collation:
306 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Variant title:
11th hour
Contents:
In the SouthThe musician of KahaniLateOklahomaThe old man in the piazza.
ISBN:
9798217294886
Language:
English
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BRN:
492147