"Other elder statesmen publishing this year included Salman Rushdie with The Eleventh Hour (Cape), a playful quintet of mortality-soaked short stories and his first fiction since the 2022 assault that blinded him in his right eye; while Ian McEwan was also considering endings and legacy in What We Can Know (Cape), in which a 22nd-century literature scholar looks back, from the other side of apocalypse, on a close-knit group of (mostly) fictional literary lions from our own era."
"But perhaps the most eagerly awaited return this year was another global figure: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose first novel in more than a decade, Dream Count (4th Estate), follows the lives of four interconnected women between Nigeria and the US. Taking in love, motherhood and female solidarity as well as privilege, inequality and sexual violence, it's a rich and beautifully composed compendium of women's experience."
Thomas Pynchon published Shadow Ticket, a prohibition-era whodunnit set against rising Nazism that makes sprawling connections with fascism today. Salman Rushdie released The Eleventh Hour, a playful quintet of mortality-soaked short stories and his first fiction since the 2022 assault that blinded his right eye. Ian McEwan's What We Can Know imagines a 22nd-century literature scholar reflecting from the other side of apocalypse on literary figures and legacy. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count follows four interconnected women between Nigeria and the US, exploring love, motherhood, female solidarity, privilege, inequality and sexual violence. Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a two-decade epic about globe-trotting Indians, family interference, nature writing and finding centre in a globalised world.
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