The Eleventh Hour
- Author Salman Rushdie
- Narrator Neil Shah, Nicholas Khan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sid Sagar, Naveen Andrews
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 4 November 2025
- Run Time 8 hours and 13 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Short stories.
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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
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| Author | Salman Rushdie |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Neil Shah, Nicholas Khan, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sid Sagar, Naveen Andrews |
| Duration | 8 hours and 13 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529969542 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Short stories |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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