Salman Rushdie: The Eleventh Hour review – Musings on mortality loom over the author’s first fiction since the attack that nearly claimed his life
Cristiana Gigina
Impactful fiction from one of the most important voices in contemporary literature In “Late”, one of the three almost novella-length stories in Salman Rushdie ’s new collection, The Eleventh Hour , a ghost comes to believe that none of his former academic colleagues really care that he is kaput, remarking of death: “You doffed your hat to it and moved on.” It is no surprise that mortality is one of the major themes of Rushdie’s first work of fiction since the horrific near-fatal assault on
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