ACCLAIM FOR Salman Rushdie’s East, West “A master of perpetual storytelling.” —The New Yorker “No one writes more convincingly of the tug between old and new, home and the allure of the unknown.” —Time “These stories are recounted with wit and make for entirely enjoyable reading.” —The New York Times “Fascinating.… Rushdie is an author who can do anything with words.” —The New York Review of Books “A concise sampler of the delights of Rushdie’s oeuvre.… The varied stories in East, West are deceptively simple.… Rushdie fans will eagerly add this to their collections.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A splendid introduction to [Rushdie’s] many-faceted reality … tender and rueful in its regard for human hope and frailty.” —Chicago Tribune “[Of the stories] in East, West, one or two remain sweetly confined. In the others, the bandages are off and the author’s rage and bitter irony assert themselves.… Two or three gleam as exuberantly as anything he has done.” —Los Angeles Times BOOKS BY Salman Rushdie FICTION The Moor’s Last Sigh East, West Haroun and the Sea of Stories The Satanic Verses Shame Midnight’s Children Grimus NONFICTION ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Imaginary Homelands The Jaguar Smile Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is the author of ten books, including Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and Midnight’s Children, which in 1993 was adjudged the “Booker of Bookers.” He was awarded the European Union’s Aristeion Literary Prize for The Moor’s Last Sigh. FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JANUARY 1996 Copyright © 1994 by Salman Rushdie All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1994. First published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1995. The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows: Rushdie, Salman East, West: stories/Salman Rushdie p. cm. ISBN 0-679-43965-X eBook ISBN: 978-0-8041-5233-4 I. Title. PR6068.U757E27 1995 823’.914—DC20 94-28277 Vintage ISBN: 0-679-75789-9 v3.1 for Andrew and Gillon CONTENTS Cover Other Books by This Author About the Author Title Page Copyright Dedication 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 Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492) East, West The Harmony of the Spheres Chekov and Zulu The Courter Acknowledgments East GOOD ADVICE IS RARER THAN RUBIES
