{"product_id":"the-eleventh-hour","title":"The Eleventh Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Eleventh Hour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘More than 40 years after\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56179590627701,"sku":"978-1787336049","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/2d0b67de-2dbd-472b-b075-d22dc3dcec6e.jpg?v=1761586025","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/the-eleventh-hour","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}