Name: East, West
ISBN: 9780804152334

Salman Rushdie

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.

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East, West

"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."

heleen de boever

Bit of a struggle to get through, this one, due to Rushdie's verbal pyrotechnics bombarding me with cultural references I couldn't always place. Nevertheless, the man has a phenomenal imagination. His are the stories children should grow up with.

coriander

I found the stories in East, West to be very thought-provoking, especially the stories in the third (East, West) section. I wasn't sure how he would create the stories that were a meeting of two 'sides' of the world in the last section, but they were very well done, and fit the title very well. The ruby slippers story in the West section had some very interesting lines and commentary on human society, although the story as a whole was fairly mysterious.

Jerald Lim

Fallon Birbal 

Alice Uzzan

Stephanie Cox

Freeda Lobo

Gwen Chodur

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.

Madhuri Gubbala

Brianna Best

Nina 

Kinnari 

Mary Coggins

Nine short stories reveal the vast distance and intimacy that exist between East and West, as well as the complex misunderstandings that both bind and separate them

East, West Stories

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