East, west Stories

Rushdie, Salman. (Author). Crossley, Steven. (Added Author).

Summary: A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus is an immigrant, dreaming of Western glory. Rushdie allows himself, like his characters, to be pulled now in one direction, then in another. Yet he remains a writer who insists on our cultural complexity; who, rising beyond ideology, refuses to choose between East and West and embraces the world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501920639 (sound recording)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (5 audio files) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator: Steven Crossley.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 139814 KB).