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The Eleventh Hour

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The Eleventh Hour

著者: Salman Rushdie
ナレーター: Neil Shah, Nicholas Khan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sid Sagar, Naveen Andrews
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, 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.

These 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.

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.

‘More than 40 years after Midnight's Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie’ Spectator

‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times

‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes


© Salman Rushdie 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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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
Entertaining and winningly heartfelt
Compelling
The opener is a beauty – it’s good to be back in Rushdie’s charming, witty world
At 78, Rushdie is still publishing impactful work; we can all doff our hats to one of the most important voices in contemporary literature
The energy of Rushdie’s prose and imagination…are as unflagging here as they were in his last novel, Victory City
Rushdie’s book characters tend to linger and stay in the reader’s mind long after the pages have been closed… his latest offering, The Eleventh Hour, is no different
A luminous collection
The five short stories collected here feature the dead…yet Rushdie’s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed
The Eleventh Hour reminded me most of the beautiful ending of The Satanic Verses… about “how newness enters the world”. Now, for all of us children of Rushdie, is a moving book about how oldness leaves it
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