East, West
Nine stories in three panels — three set in the East, three in the West, three where the two grind against each other. A poor Delhi woman sells her chance at a British visa, Hamlet's dead jester is given a wife and a motive, Columbus courts Isabella like a suitor, and two elderly Indian servants circle each other for years in a London mansion block. The hyphen in the third panel is where Rushdie has said he actually lives.
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- alludes to ↑ Hamlet
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