Salman Rushdie has not lost his pen. The American-British writer will publish in November a collection of news, his first fictional book since he suffered an assault on the knife having cost him the use of his right eye in 2022, his publisher announced on Thursday.
The book entitled “The Eleventh Hour” (“the eleventh hour”) compiles five short stories and short stories which take place in the three countries where he lived, India in which he is native, the United Kingdom, and the United States where he now lives, according to the Penguin Random House editions.
It is a “collection of moving and masterful news that transports us around the world, from Bombay districts to the prestigious English universities”, and whose exit is scheduled for November 4, the publisher underlined in a press release on Friday.
“The three news of this volume, all written in the last twelve months, explore themes and places that occupy my mind – mortality, Bombay, farewell, England (especially Cambridge), anger, peace, America,” said the 77 -year -old author, quoted in the press release.
Stories that “dialogue between them”
“I am happy that these stories, very different from each other by their decor, their narration and their technique, nevertheless manage to dialogue between them and with the two stories which serve as a prologue and epilogue to this trio,” added Salman Rushdie.
The author of the “Satanic Verses”, a work which had earned him a Fatwa of Iran more than thirty years ago which judged the blasphemous book, was assaulted on August 12, 2022 in the northeast of the United States, a knife of stab wounded by an American-Lebanese convicted in February of attempted murder. He had made it the story in an autobiographical book published in 2024, “the knife”.