East, West
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East, West (ISBN 0-394-28150-0) is an anthology of short stories written by Salman Rushdie in 1994. The book is divided into three main sections, entitled "East", "West", and "East, West", each section containing stories whose topics center around their respective geographical areas (in the "East, West" section both worlds are influenced by each other). Though Rushdie himself never divulged the exact inspirations for his stories in East, West, it is common thought that the central themes of each of his stories are based around his personal experiences as an immigrant in England during the time of the fatwas issued against his life.
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[edit] Contents
[edit] East
Stories:
- Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
- The Free Radio
- The Prophet's Hair
[edit] West
Stories:
- Yorick
- At The Auction of the Ruby Slippers
- Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492)
[edit] East, West
Stories:
- The Harmony of the Spheres
- Chekov and Zulu
- The Courter
[edit] Trivia
[edit] The Prophet's Hair
In The Prophet's Hair the story involves a relic that contains Prophet Muhammed's hair that was stolen out of the Hazratbal Mosque in Kashmir. In reality this mosque claims to have this relic.
[edit] Yorick
The story of Yorick is a fictional account of the childhood life of Hamlet and his father's court jester Yorick, of the William Shakespeare play bearing his name.
[edit] At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers
In the story At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers the ruby slippers and Gale refer to the slippers of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. (Note that in the written story of the Wizard of Oz these slippers were silver. In the movie adaptation however these slippers were ruby).
[edit] Chekov and Zulu
The main characters of the story Chekov and Zulu are named after Pavel Chekov and Hikaru Sulu, two fictional characters in Star Trek.
