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The Prophet's Hair

Part of A Vintage Short

Author Salman Rushdie
$0.99 US
Knopf | Vintage
On sale May 02, 2016 | 9781101973691
Sales rights: US, Canada, Open Mkt
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair.
 
From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdie’s collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West.
 
An ebook short.
Praise for Salman Rushdie and 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

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair.
 
From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdie’s collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West.
 
An ebook short.

Praise

Praise for Salman Rushdie and 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

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