East West

In these nine 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. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters 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 in a violent world fantasies hatched by Star Trek; and Christopher Columbus dreams of consummating his relationship with Queen Isabella. The stories in East, West show the extraordinary range and power of Salman Rushdie's writing.
　　作者简介：
　　Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels-Grimus,Midnight's Chidren,Shame,The Satanic Verses,Harona and the Sea of Stories,The Moor's Last Sigh ,The Ground Beneath Her Feet,Fury and Shalimar the Clown-one collection of short stories,four works of non-fiction,and is the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing.

EAST
Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
The Free Radio
The Prophet's Hair
WEST
Yorick
At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers
Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabela of Spain Consummate Their Relationship(Santa Fe,AD 1492)
EAST,WEST
The Harmony of the Spheres
Chekov and Zulu
The Courter
Acknowledgments