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
