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The Eleventh Hour (story collection) 2025
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories is a compilation of short fiction written by Salman Rushdie. The book was released on 4 November 2025 in the United Kingdom through Jonathan Cape and in the United States through Random House.
At the Lviv BookForum in October 2024, Rushdie revealed he was developing a new fictional work. This collection includes Rushdie's initial creative writing since the assault on 12 August 2022, which resulted in partial vision loss in one eye.
The phrase "the eleventh hour" originates from the Gospel of Matthew's Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, indicating the final portion of the workday; in modern context it refers to the final opportunity before it becomes impossible. Rushdie noted that he was 78 when releasing the book and had endured "a deeply personal confrontation with mortality," making the concept of limited time central to his thoughts.
Details
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- ISBN
- 9781787336049
- Pages
- 272
