{"product_id":"9781787336056","title":"The Eleventh Hour","description":"Author: Rushdie, Salman\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781787336056\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDazzling 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 \u003ci\u003eVictory City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo 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? \u003ci\u003eThe Eleventh Hour\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'More than 40 years after \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Rushdie has not just enlarged literature's capacities, he has expanded the world's imaginative possibilities' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Salman Rushdie is a genius' A.M. Homes\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46727061471390,"sku":"UBD-9781787336056","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781787336056.jpg?v=1776492275","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781787336056","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}