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East, West
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This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out fantasies hatched by Star Trek; and Christopher Columbus dreams of consummating his relationship with Queen Isabella. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the two.
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| Weight | 0.227 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.524 × 13.081 × 20.32 cm |
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| Year Published | 1996-1-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | Canada |
| ISBN 10 | 0394281500 |
| About The Author | SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of fourteen previous novels—Grimus, Midnight's Children (winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House, and Quichotte—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction—Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line. Recognized with numerous awards, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature. |
“Poignant and intimate.” —The New York Times “Richly imaginative. . . . The characters are memorable, the language swift, and the reader is touched by desire, friendship and love.” —The Globe and Mail “Above all is the range and versatility of Rushdie’s use of language, from tightly controlled to dazzlingly free, from mock-Shakespeare to mimic-Indian. More than any other English writer, Rushdie makes the page sing with his prose.” —The Washington Post “A pleasure to read. . . . The stories in East, West have the careful precision of ivory miniatures. And all of them, beneath their infectiously playful surfaces ponder the imponderables of human fate.” —Macleans's “One of the decade's great literary triumphs: magical, compassionate, wise, beautiful, and so very entertaining.” —Toronto Star |
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