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The Eleventh Hour

內容簡介

內容簡介 來自國際知名、屢獲大獎的作家薩爾曼·魯西迪（Salman Rushdie），帶來一部引人入勝的作品，探索生命、死亡，以及人生所謂「第十一小時」所呈現的焦點。魯西迪以非凡的想像力描繪人生的最後篇章，透過五個故事橫跨他創作生涯所涉及的三個國家——印度、英格蘭與美國——呈現令人難忘的人物群像。《在南方》中，兩位性格乖張的老者——Junior 與 Senior——在國家災難的時刻面對各自的私密悲劇。《卡哈尼的音樂家》講述孟買某區的音樂神童，運用其魔幻天賦對她所嫁入的富裕家庭造成毀滅性影響。《晚》描寫一位劍橋大學教師的幽靈，招募孤獨學生協助向他一生的折磨者復仇。《奧克拉荷馬》將一名年輕作家捲入欺騙與謊言的迷網，他試圖弄清自己的導師究竟是自殺還是假死。《廣場上的老者》是一則關於言論自由的當代寓言，寓意深遠。我們是否順應死亡，抑或反抗它？我們會在「第十一小時」以平靜度過，還是以憤怒面對？如果無法得知自己故事的結局，又該如何實現人生的圓滿？《第十一小時》以犀利洞見與無邊想像力，探討生命與死亡、傳承與自我認同，使薩爾曼·魯西迪成為當代最受讚譽的作家之一。《第十一小時》如夜色裡的火焰——照亮生命、死亡、尊嚴與記憶。 這是魯西迪獻給世界的命運之書，也是對自由與人性的最深情守護。From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of lifeRushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and America—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 Midnight’s Children uses her magical gifts to wreak devastation on the wealthy family she marries into. In “Late,” the ghost of a Cambridge don enlists the help of a lonely student to enact revenge upon the tormentor of his lifetime. “Oklahoma” plunges a young writer into a web of deceit and lies as he tries to figure out whether his mentor killed himself or faked his own death. And “The Old Man in the Piazza” is a powerful parable for our times about freedom of speech.Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? Do we spend our “eleventh hour” in serenity or in rage? And how do we achieve fulfillment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie is the author of fifteen novels—Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize); and Victory City—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published six works of nonfiction—The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; Step Across This Line; Joseph Anton; Languages of Truth; and Knife (which was a finalist for the National Book Award)—and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN America, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 國際知名、屢獲大獎的文豪薩爾曼·魯西迪（Salman Rushdie）最新短篇集，以驚人想像力與犀利洞察，凝視生命的「第十一小時」——那一刻，我們看見結局、也回望自己。
五則故事照亮生命終章：在第十一小時，我們如何面對結局與自我？

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