17 November 2025 - « The Eleventh Hour », Salman Rusdie's new story collection
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career
Kevin Power (The Guardian, 28/10/2025)
From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak.
After stabbing attack, Salman Rushdie’s new stories grapple with mortality and magical realism
Malcolm Forbes (The Los Angeles Times, 04/11/2025)
As one century gives way to another, a child is born in Mumbai. “The millennium’s gift,” Chandni Contractor, is a source of joy to her parents.
Gurus & Grandes Dames
Pratinav Anil (Literary Review, November 2025)
Salman Rushdie’s latest book, a quintet of stories, purports to be a meditation on old age – on lives ‘well into the eleventh hour’.
Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations
(The New Yorker, 05/11/2025)
alman Rushdie prefers not to immerse himself in other people’s writing when he is working on his own. “When I’m writing fiction, I tend not to read fiction. I actually don’t want other people’s voices to sneak into my head,” Rushdie said recently.
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Cover of "The Eleventh Hour". Penguin India.