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The Eleventh Hour

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內容簡介 若將老年比作黃昏，最終走向午夜的遺忘，他們早已邁入第十一個鐘點。在印度欽奈，兩位爭吵不休的老友，在國家災難的背景下經歷各自的私人悲劇。回到《午夜之子》的孟買街區，一位擁有魔法的音樂家與一名身家數十億的配偶過著不幸福的婚姻生活。在英國一所大學學院裡，一位不死的學者請求一名孤獨的學生為他報復昔日的加害者。這五篇燦爛的小說作品穿梭於薩曼·魯西迪稱之為「家」的三個國度——印度、英格蘭與美國——探問步入人生第十一個鐘點意味著什麼。它們是對死亡必將到來的清算，也是對作者曾經歷過的過往的深刻回望。我們是要順從死亡，還是憤然抗拒？我們如何與那些曾築成家的地方告別？在不知自己故事結局的情況下，又如何在生命中獲得圓滿？《第十一個鐘點》以犀利的洞察與無邊的想像，沉思生與死、遺產與身份——這正是讓薩曼·魯西迪成為當代最受讚譽作家的特質。「距《午夜之子》出版已逾四十年，依然沒有人能像薩曼·魯西迪這樣編織故事。」——《旁觀者》「魯西迪不僅拓展了文學的邊界，也擴展了世界的想像可能性。」——《泰晤士報》「薩曼·魯西迪是天才。」——A.M. HomesIf old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through.Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment 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.‘More than 40 years after Midnight's Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie’ Spectator‘Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities’ The Times‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes

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 : 這五篇燦爛的小說作品穿梭於薩曼·魯西迪稱之為「家」的三個國度——印度、英格蘭與美國——探問步入人生第十一個鐘點意味著什麼。它們是對死亡必將到來的清算，也是對作者曾經歷過的過往的深刻回望。