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Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities'Boisterous... Full of panache' Sunday Times<BR><BR> If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.<BR><BR> Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 'One of the most important voices in contemporary literature' Independent<BR><BR>'Exuberant' The Times<BR><BR>'Salman Rushdie is a genius' A.M. Homes<BR><BR>'Entertaining and winningly heartfelt' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Economist and New Yorker*<BR>
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