The eleventh hour
Rushdie, Salman2025
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Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can't rest until he avenges his former tormentor. Following Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie's new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home?
Main title:
The eleventh hour / Salman Rushdie.
Author:
Rushdie, Salman, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2025.©2025
Collation:
254 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
In the SouthThe musician of KahaniLateOklahomaThe old man in the pizza.
ISBN:
9781787336056 (paperback)9781787336049 (hardback)
Dewey class:
823.914813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
489857