The Eleventh Hour
4 hrs. 55 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Salman Rushdie
Author
Salman Rushdie
Narrator
Andrey Finagin
Narrator
Andrey Finagin
Description
“The Eleventh Hour” by Salman Rushdie is a collection of short stories about aging, memory, and mortality—as well as the unusual clarity that often comes at the end of life. Here, the writer further develops themes that are essential to him: the search for one’s own “self,” the power of language, and the delicate, shifting boundary between reality and fiction. But another note is added as well—the sense of time’s limits, the need to look back and take stock. Rushdie’s characters think about unrealized dreams, lost worlds, and mistakes that were made.
Uniting the ease of his prose with a restrained elegiac tone, “The Eleventh Hour” presents the work of a mature author reflecting on time, death, and his mark on literature—yet without losing the signature wit, life-driven momentum, and rare gift for storytelling.
Uniting the ease of his prose with a restrained elegiac tone, “The Eleventh Hour” presents the work of a mature author reflecting on time, death, and his mark on literature—yet without losing the signature wit, life-driven momentum, and rare gift for storytelling.
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