The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
Seems intended as a kind of coda to his career. The stories are death-haunted ... These stories are entertaining but not particularly strong ... ords have not yet failed Salman Rushdie, even if, in this self-consciously late book, the spectacular originality of his novelistic peak sounds more as an echo than as an urgently present voice.
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Rushdie returns in full transfixing force ... Rushdie’s spectacularly imaginative eleventh-hour cautionary tales are enthralling, sagacious, and resounding.
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Brilliant ... A provocative set of tales that, though with grim moments, celebrate life, language, and love in the face of death.
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