第十一小时：故事五重奏（拉什迪）

The Eleventh Hour:A Quintet of Stories

基本信息

Release Date： Tuesday, November 4, 2025

ISBN13： 9798217155101

Publisher： Random House US

Measurement ：250 g 

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

拉什迪将他非凡的想象力倾注于人生的最后一幕，创作了五部长篇故事，横跨他创作的三个国家——印度、英国和美国，塑造了一群令人难忘的人物。《在南方》讲述了一对爱吵架的老头——小老头和老老头——在国家危难之际的私人悲剧。《卡哈尼的音乐家》讲述了一位来自孟买街区的音乐天才，她曾出演过《午夜的孩子》，运用她的神奇天赋，摧毁了她嫁入的富裕家庭。

《迟到》讲述了一位剑桥大学教授的鬼魂寻求一位孤独学生的帮助，向折磨他一生的人复仇。《俄克拉荷马》讲述了一位年轻作家陷入欺骗和谎言的罗网，试图弄清楚他的导师是自杀还是伪造的死亡。《广场上的老人》则是我们这个时代关于言论自由的一则强有力的寓言。我们是适应死亡，还是抗拒死亡？我们是平静地度过“最后一刻”，还是愤怒地度过？如果我们不知道自己故事的结局，又该如何获得人生的满足感？《最后一刻》以智慧、创造力和敏锐的洞察力，探讨生与死、传承与身份。

Rushdie 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 probes life and death, legacy and identity, with wit, creativity, and keen insight.

作者简介

艾哈迈德·萨尔曼·拉什迪爵士，印度裔英美双籍作家。

拉什迪的第2部小说作品《午夜之子》获得1981年布克奖，内容充满丰富的想像。

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-American author.

Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children, won the 1981 Booker Prize and is richly imaginative.