A Vintage Shorts âShort Story Monthâ Selection âą 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 Prophetâs hair.
From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, âThe Prophetâs Hairâ vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdieâs collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West.
A Vintage Shorts âShort Story Monthâ Selection âą 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 Prophetâs hair.
From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, âThe Prophetâs Hairâ vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdieâs collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West.