East, West
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  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409058809
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

East, West

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1 Dec 2010
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22 Oct 2020
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6 Oct 1995
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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.
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409058809
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous 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.

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Praise for East, West

Scheherazade meets Star Trek in these well-honed miniatures from the maestro of the cross-cultural blockbuster

Independent

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

Home in neither, but poised somewhere in between - Salman Rushdie's volume of short stories on this theme is deft, inventive, entertaining

Financial Times

Literary magic

Literary Review

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

The most original imagination writing today

Nadine Gordimer
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