Salman Rushdie

Dernière sortie

The Eleventh Hour

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
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

Les livres de Salman Rushdie

Les versets sataniques
3.2/5
Salman Rushdie
E-book
10,99 €
Man Booker Prize
Les enfants de minuit
5/5
5/5
Salman Rushdie
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12,99 €
Promotion
-70%
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
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4,92 €
16,40 €
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
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8,99 €
Le Couteau
Salman Rushdie, Clément Bresson
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19,99 €
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
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8,99 €
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
Poche
10,90 €
Nouveauté
Shalimar le clown
4/5
Salman Rushdie
Poche
10,50 €
Essais
Salman Rushdie
E-book
13,99 €
Essais
Salman Rushdie
E-book
13,99 €