East West

Description

In these nine 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 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 Salman Rushdie’s writing.

‘Scheherazade meets Star Trek in these well-honed miniatures from the maestro of the cross-cultural block-buster.’ Independent