?This collection from international multi-award-winning author Salman Rushdie is a startling exploration of the truths that become clear in the metaphorical final moments of death and life. Rushdie turns the lens of his extraordinary imagination to life's final chapter and, through five stories spanning the three countries where he wrote his further works?India, England and America?presents a vibrant document through unforgettable characters of two feuding old men?Junior and Senior?and their own tragedy at a time of national crisis. In ?The Musician of the Story,? Midnight?s Children features a musical prodigy from a Mumbai neighborhood who uses her magical powers to wreak havoc on the affluent family she marries into. In ?Late,? the spirit of a Cambridge professor takes revenge on his lifelong tormentor with the help of a lonely student. ?Oklahoma? follows a young writer caught in a web of lies and deception as he tries to discover whether his mentor committed suicide or faked his own death. And ?The Old Man in the Fiat? offers a profound parable on freedom of expression in our time. Do we accept death, or rebel against it? Do we spend our ?last hours? in peace or in anger? If we don't know the end of our story, how will we find fulfillment in our lives? ?The Last Hour contemplates life and death, legacy and identity with profound insight and boundless imagination?the same qualities that have earned Salman Rushdie a place among the most admired writers of our time.?