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The eleventh hour
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Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of 'Midnight's Children', a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can't rest until he avenges his former tormentor.
- Genres
- Short stories
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN
- 9781529968842
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