A review by bg86
East, West by Salman Rushdie

2.0

The stories are written in the vibrant language we have come to expect from Salman Rushdie: sentences not to be pondered over but read at full speed, in order to fully enjoy the haphazardly placed phonetically spelled and made up words to the fullest. So far so good. But contrary to his (in my opinion) best work 'midnight's children' there is not enough context to derive the meaning of some of these words and the stories are too short to enable everything to fall into place. Still the stories are highly enjoyable. I had been expecting more of Rushdie while working out this east-west theme, being someone stuck between both worlds himself. Judging from the stories however, I offer him some free advice: stick to the East! (With the exception of Fury, which is another story of course).