Salman Rushdie's first fiction since the 2022 attack arrives as an audiobook
The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five short stories, is reviewed by the Guardian in its audio edition, with each tale read by a different actor.
The Eleventh Hour is Salman Rushdie's first work of fiction since he was gravely wounded in a 2022 stage attack that left him with life-changing injuries, according to the Guardian. The collection gathers five short stories, each read by a different narrator in the audiobook edition reviewed by the paper.
According to the Guardian's review, the stories turn on legacy, mortality, loneliness and ageing, but the author treats these subjects with levity and laughter alongside their more sombre weight. Among the pieces described: 'Late', a ghost story set at King's College, Cambridge, read by actor Naveen Andrews, in which an honorary fellow named SM Arthur wakes up dead in his college room and meets a lonely Indian student, Rosa, stranded there over the holidays. Another story, 'The Old Man in the Piazza', read by Sid Sagar, is described as an allegory about free speech, imagining public opinion as a modern Colosseum where, the text says, 'we are all now gladiators in the Colosseum of the Thumb.'
No French publication or translation of the collection is mentioned in the source material.
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