East, West
Salman Rushdie · 1994
Rushdie's only proper story collection: nine stories split between East and West. "The Courter" is one of the great immigration stories, and the collection shows his gifts for compression alongside the great novels.
The case against
Three sections, one of them limping. The East stories land and 'The Courter' is the keeper; the West section offers Yorick punning through Hamlet and Columbus courting Isabella, conceits that read like a great novelist amusing himself between books. Rushdie's maximalism needs room to build, and at ten pages a story you get the pyrotechnics without the architecture.
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