Random House

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"The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories" (to be published Tuesday by Random House) is acclaimed novelist Salman Rushie's elegiac new collection of stories – his first fiction since a 2022 attack that nearly killed him – in which he writes of intimate encounters with death, ghosts, magic, and the immutable passage of time.

Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Martha Teichner's conversation with Salman Rushdie on "CBS Sunday Morning" November 2!

"The Eleventh Hour" by Salman Rushdie $25 at Amazon

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From "In the South"

The day Junior fell down began like any other day: the explosion of heat

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