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The Eleventh Hour A Quintet of Stories
From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, an inventive collection of fiction that explores life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life
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 Americaāand 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 Kahani,ā 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 āLate,ā 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 probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.
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 Americaāand 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 Kahani,ā 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 āLate,ā 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 probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.
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From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, an inventive collection of fiction that explores life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life
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 Americaāand 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 Kahani,ā 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 āLate,ā 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 probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.
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 Americaāand 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 Kahani,ā 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 āLate,ā 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 probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.
