The Eleventh Hour

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The Aberystwyth Book Club discuss The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie. Five works of fiction that move between the three countries Salman Rushdie has called home - India, England and America - and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity and speaks deeply to what the author has come from and through. 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 college, an undead academic can't rest until he avenges his former tormentor. We also find out from our readers what year has been the most significant in their lives so far. Presented, produced, edited and mixed by Hannah Loy - Read the Room Productions Readers: Melanie Owen, Catherine Taylor, Stevan Howe and Sairah Ahsan Recorded and mastered by Cai Strachan