Accession number
PML 350002
Creator
Rushdie, Salman.
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, c1994.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
214 p. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
A collection of nine stories. In At the Auction of the Rubby Slippers, the author reflects on the role of auctioneers in establishing "the value of our pasts, of our future, of our lives," while an allegory on the immigrant experience is entitled Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship.
Binding
Quarter black cloth, in typographic dust jacket.
Classification
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