stselling 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