East, West Stories

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-12-23
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

From the Booker Prize-winning author ofThe Satanic Versescomes 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.

Author Biography

Salman Rushdie's latest novel, <i>The Moor's Last Sigh</i>, was published by Knopf Canada in September 1995.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

East
3(58)
Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
3(14)
The Free Radio
17(16)
The Prophet's Hair
33(28)
West
61(62)
Yorick
61(24)
At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers
85(20)
Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fe, AD 1492)
105(18)
East, West
123(90)
The Harmony of the Spheres
123(24)
Chekov and Zulu
147(26)
The Courter
173(40)
Acknowledgments 213

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