New Delhi, March 27 -- Indian-born British and American novelist Salman Rushdie's new collection of stories is set to be published later this year, the first new fiction since he was stabbed in 2022, his publisher Penguin Random House India announced on Thursday.

"The Eleventh Hour" comprises three novellas and two shorter works set across India, England and the US, moving between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left.

Rushdie said, "The three novellas in this volume, all written in the last twelve months, explore themes and places that have been much on my mind - mortality, Bombay, farewells, England (especially Cambridge), anger, peace, America."

"And Goya and Kafka and Bosch as well," he added.

The book is sl...