East West - Audio Cassette Author:Salman Rushdie From the back cover: — Salman Rushdie's first major work of fiction since The Satanic Verses. His very first collection of stories. In these six short 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. These stories show the extraordi... more »nary range and power of Rushdie's writing. With great skill and a tenderness that is often deeply moving, Rushdie explores the complicated relationship of coloniser and colonised, the intimacy and distance, the shared history and the misunderstandings that both bind and separate East and West.
Salman Rushdie is the author of five novels. His second, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize and then, in 1993, the Booker of Bookers. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.