A review by katrinky
East, West by Salman Rushdie

4.0

these stories are so intelligently written, so funny and full of humor that Rushdie manages to make feel like inside jokes with you, his literary reader who knows things about literature and history. (he definitely comes across as a writer's writer here.) too many of the stories were sad for them to be the kind I'll want to read over and over, but every one of them affected me. the wild frontier of the future, where the ruby slippers are up for auction, the world of Indian security and Star trek stories after Indira Gandhi's assassination, a love quadrangle involving paranoia schizophrenia, the courtship between two elderly folks playing chess and not needing much shared language....all good, and memorable, and poignant. recommend. (this book was assigned to me in school the year I ended up taking off, and it's taken me this long to finally pull it off the shelf.)

"witches bide their time on the balcons and galeries of the Grand Saleroom, living gargoyles with, in many cases, high credit ratings."