Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and 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.
Richly nuanced, full or humor, bitter anger, an embracing tenderness, and a buyancy of language. --Boston Globe
About the Author
Salman Rushdie's latest novel,
The Moor's Last Sigh, was published by Knopf Canada in September 1995.
From the Hardcover edition.