Product Information
In these nine short stories Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters 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 in a violent world fantasies hatched by STAR TREK; and Christopher Columbus dreams of consummating his relationship with Queen Isabella. The Stories in EAST, WEST show the extraordinary range and power of Rushdie's writing. With great skill and a tenderness that is often deeply moving, Rushdie explores the complicated relationship of coloniser and colonised, the intimacy and distance, the shared history and the misunderstandings that both bind and separate East and West.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224041348
eBay Product ID (ePID)86414627
Product Key Features
Book TitleEast, West
AuthorSalman Rushdie
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories, Books
Publication Year1994
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSalman Rushdie
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom