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East, West

Salman Rushdie

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English
Vintage
06 October 1995
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.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   141g
ISBN:   9780099533016
ISBN 10:   0099533014
Pages:   224
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Reviews for East, West

An inventive and powerfully lyrical collection, divided into three sections: 'East', 'West' and 'East, West'. Rushdie translates both of these worlds onto the page, and synthesizes their multifarious cultures - a result of his unique personal perception heightened by extraordinary circumstance. Brilliant. (Kirkus UK)


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