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22%OFFSalman Rushdie - East, West - 9780099533016 - V9780099533016
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East, West

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Description for East, West Paperback. 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 more. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.

Discover a brilliant collection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning author.

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.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099533016
SKU
V9780099533016
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About Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Reviews for East, West
A vindication of the rights of fiction...His story-telling powers are alive and well - his ingenuity, wit, charm and his restless talent for the unexpected
Sunday Times
Literary magic
Literary Review
The most original imagination writing today
Nadine Gordimer
Scheherazade meets Star Trek in these well-honed miniatures from the maestro of the cross-cultural blockbuster
Independent
Home in neither, but poised somewhere in between - Salman Rushdie's volume of short stories on this theme is deft, inventive, entertaining
Financial Times
One of the decade's great literary triumphs: magical, compassionate, wise, beautiful, and so very entertaining
Toronto Star
Richly imaginative... The characters are memorable, the language swift, and the reader is touched by desire, friendship and love
Globe and Mail
Rushdie is the great post-imperial Indian writer
Times Literary Supplement

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