{"product_id":"the-eleventh-hour-by-salman-rushdie-9781529968842","title":"The Eleventh Hour","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since \u003cem\u003eVictory City\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of \u003cem\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648343163116,"sku":"9781529968842","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529968842-the-eleventh-hour.jpg?v=1779257260","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-eleventh-hour-by-salman-rushdie-9781529968842","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}