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Very good short stories about the east, the west and all the people in the middle. Just to show that even if the context are different, people are all the same.

Brevi storie sull'est, sull'ovest e tutte le persone che si trovano in mezzo. Il modo giusto per mostrare che, anche se il contesto é differente, le persone sono sempre le stesse.


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East West Salman Rushdie 9780099533016 Books Reviews

Too much flowery language
Great read and a very good quality and good price for this book. Everyone should read Salman Rushdie, he is great!
I liked only 2 stories. I kept reading hoping the others would be like those 2. Could not finish some of them.
I'm torn on what to think about this book. It's a collection of short stories so some are awesome and some are okay. But a couple were completely confusing. There was one about Hamlet, kind of, and I didn't get the point whatsoever. It was such a quick read, however, that I quickly got through the stories that didn't appeal to me. Overall, I enjoyed the glimpse into a culture I know so very little about. I will read more by this author.
This book was both entertaining and thought provoking. Each story drew me in in different but equally exciting ways, and after each I mulled it over in my head.
Compilation of short stories written by Rushdie. Comparing and contrasting Western (Britain) experiences to Eastern (India). Some stories are funny, others are thought-provoking.
I picked up this collection of Rushdie's short stories mostly because it contained "The Prophet's Hair" which I had
read previously, and because I was intrigued by the suggestive story premises. A story about Yorick? Christopher Columbus? I am a fairly recent novitiate into the world of Rushdie (the only other novel of his I've read is
"Midnight's Children"), and I must say I am continued to be amazed. Rushdie crafts believable worlds which, outwardly fantastic or not, suggest the possibility of elusive magic just out of reach but still quite tangible. He has an uncanny ear for dialogue; one is almost to be able to literally "hear" the words spoken by his characters, especially the Anglo-Indian spoken by characters from his homeland.

There are nine stories in this volume, and though it is a quick read (I was able to read through the entire work in a single two hour sitting), the stories are immensely immersive. The stories are divided into three sections representing not only the locales for the setting, but also the cultural outlook of the characters described. The "East" stories blend the mysticism and political awareness I was familiar with from the previous Rushdie book I'd read, while the "West" stories reflect the fantastic madness of our Western culture. It's in the "East, West" section that Rushdie is his strongest. These stories deal with the collision of Rushdie's two backgrounds and the conflicts that arise from the struggle to maintain an identity between the confliction spheres of influence.

This is perhaps a better introduction to Rushdie than "Midnight's Children". Not only did I have the cushion of reading a story I was already acquainted with, I did not have to struggle with the curious idioms of speech and political events that were unfamiliar to a child of the West. I still really liked "Children" and plan to digest more Rushdie, those seeking to begin their foray into Rushdie's polyglot world might do well to start with this crossroads of a book.
Very good short stories about the east, the west and all the people in the middle. Just to show that even if the context are different, people are all the same.

Brevi storie sull'est, sull'ovest e tutte le persone che si trovano in mezzo. Il modo giusto per mostrare che, anche se il contesto é differente, le persone sono sempre le stesse.