A review by deea_bks
East, West by Salman Rushdie

3.0

This is an average book: some of the stories are boring, but to the subject, others are written in an interesting way, but they lack something...I couldn't put my finger on this "something" and identify it. I expected this volume to be something else, but it wasn't. In fact, I think that the intention of the author was to create 3 kinds of stories: the ones specific to the East, the ones specific to the West and the ones specific to the Indians that are living abroad, but miss their customs and country. He managed to write some boring stories about the East, some far-fetched ones about the West...and only the ones from the third cathegory are a bit better.

I liked "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" and "The Harmony of the Spheres", but I found the others to lack the literary genius that Rushdie has proved to have in his books I have read before.