"One of the decade's great literary triumphs: magical, compassionate, wise, beautiful, and so very entertaining." Toronto Star
"Richly imaginative....The characters are memorable, the language swift, and the reader is touched by desire, friendship and love." The Globe and Mail "A pleasure to read....The stories in East, West have the careful precision of ivory miniatures. And all of them, beneath their infectiously playful surfaces ponder the imponderables of human fate." Macleans's "Poignant and intimate.... Mr. Rushdie, one suspects, would rather have his work discussed purely as literature, without reference to the unhappy history that has plagued him, but sometimes the stories themselves make it difficult to ignore the story of their author." The New York Times "Above all is the range and versatility of Rushdie's use of language, from tightly controlled to dazzlingly free, from mock-Shakespeare to mimic-Indian. More than any other English writer, Rushdie makes the page sing with his prose." The Washington PostThis 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."Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
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