num_pages: 228
description: 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.East. Good advice is rarer than rubies --The free radio --The prophet's hair --West. Yorick --At the auction of the ruby slippers --Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain consummate their relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492) --East, West. The harmony of the spheres --Chekov and Zulu --The courter
title: East, West: Stories
titlecomplete: East, West: Stories
genres: 20th Century, Literature, School, Literary Fiction, India, Indian Literature, Magical Realism, Short Stories, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7338
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group