East, West, Salman Rushdie
East, West, Salman Rushdie
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East, West
Stories

Author: Salman Rushdie

Narrator: Sunil Malhotra, Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/29/2016

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus is an immigrant, dreaming of Western glory. Rushdie allows himself, like his characters, to be pulled now in one direction, then in another. Yet he remains a writer who insists on our cultural complexity; who, rising beyond ideology, refuses to choose between East and West and embraces the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Smriti

I kind of breezed through this one. East, West is a compilation of short stories written by renowned author - Salman Rushdie. This is my first book by him. I know - it's a travesty, blah blah blah. But I got my chance this time and I went with it. Honestly I was a little nervous about how I would ta......more