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Salman Rushdie's New Book Is His First Fiction Since a Brutal Attack. He Tells Us Why

Salman Rushdie’s new collection, 'The Eleventh Hour,' marks his creative resurgence with five stories exploring mortality, published three years after his 2022 stabbing attack.

  • Salman Rushdie's new book, "In the South," is his first fictional work since a brutal attack that left him blinded in one eye.
  • The novella "Oklahoma" was inspired by an exhibit of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel "Amerika" about a European immigrant's journeys in the U.S.
  • Rushdie's most celebrated novel is "Midnight's Children," while his most infamous work, "The Satanic Verses," led to a fatwa calling for his death.
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The words at the presentation of "The Eleventh Hour": "In the last tale of the book a man looks calmly at a square, while around him is chaos: it is the met...

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Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author. It's his first fiction work since being attacked on a New York stage in 2022.

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