Discover 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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099533016Number of pages: 192Weight: 141 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
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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 unexpectedLiterary magicThe most original imagination writing todayScheherazade meets Star Trek in these well-honed miniatures from the maestro of the cross-cultural blockbusterHome in neither,but poised somewhere in between - Salman Rushdie's volume of short stories on this theme is deft,inventive,entertaining
Salman Rushdie
One of the world's most acclaimed writers,British Indian author Salman Rushdie is the author of works including the Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children,The Satanic Verses,Fury,Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence and The Golden House.
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