About the Book: Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to lifes final act with a quintet
of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India,
England, and the US—and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
"In the South" introduces a pair of quarrelsome old men—Junior and Senior—and
their private tragedy at a moment of national calamity. In "The Musician of
Kahani", a musical prodigy from the Mumbai neighborhood featured in Midnights
Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she
marries into. In "Late", the ghost of a Cambridge