The Eleventh Hour. Salman Rushdie. 2025. 254 Pages. (Hardcover.).

This well known author offers five short stories of a fictional nature of variable quality in this newest book. It as perhaps telling that most of them deal with death in one form or another. The most engaging for me was the one titled Late, in which a dead man haunts the living and muses about life with only one girl who can see and hear him. This involves the old debate about whether death is an ending or a beginning; whether the mind is separate from the brain and the body. The least interesting is the one titled Oklahoma which seems like a free association of unconnected thoughts.

In places it is difficult to distinguish his telling of personal experiences from real fiction

I quite enjoyed some of this book, but could only give it a

3.5/5

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