Overview

• Random House has announced Salman Rushdie's new book, 'The Eleventh Hour,' set to be published on November 4, 2025.
• The collection includes three novellas and two shorter stories, written over the past year and set in India, England, and the U.S.
• Rushdie describes the stories as interconnected, forming a single work that reflects on life's final stages and emotional reconciliations.
• This marks Rushdie's first fiction since the 2022 attack that left him with lasting injuries, including blindness in one eye.
• 'The Eleventh Hour' follows the release of Rushdie's memoir 'Knife,' which chronicled the attack and was a National Book Award finalist.