The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie - ISBN: 9781529968842
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Rushdie’s short stories explore life’s eleventh hour across the globe.
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The Eleventh Hour

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    272 pages

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    24 November 2026

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Summary

Dazzling 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 Victory City.

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

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529968842
ISBN-10:1529968844
Author:Salman Rushdie
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:24 November 2026
Weight:200g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

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 * Sunday Times *Entertaining and winningly heartfelt * Daily Telegraph *Compelling * London Standard *The opener is a beauty – it’s good to be back in Rushdie’s charming, witty world * The Times *At 78, Rushdie is still publishing impactful work; we can all doff our hats to one of the most important voices in contemporary literature * Independent *The energy of Rushdie’s prose and imagination…are as unflagging here as they were in his last novel, Victory City * i *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 * UK Press Syndciation *A luminous collection * Economist, Books of the Year *The five short stories collected here feature the dead…yet Rushdie’s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed * Financial Times, Books of the Year *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 * New Statesman *

About The Author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include:

  • Midnight’s Children (Booker Prize winner, Booker of Bookers, Best of the Booker)
  • Shame
  • The Satanic Verses
  • Quichotte
  • Victory City

His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.

A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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