East, West: Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0804152330
- ISBN-13
- 9780804152334
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-08
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
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.
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