Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Salman Rushdie
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Realism, postcolonial
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Outside a British consulate in Pakistan
- Principal Characters: Miss Rehana, Muhammad Ali
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Colonies or colonization, Twentieth century, Marriage, Immigration or emigration, England or English people, Duty, Greed, Ethics, Happiness, Pakistan or Pakistanis, Buses
- Locales: Pakistan
The Story
The story begins on the last Tuesday of a month when a colorfully painted bus brings Miss Rehana to the gates of a British consulate. This is the day when women, referred to as “Tuesday women,” go to the consulate to get visas to join fiancés who are working in England. Muhammad Ali, identified as an “advice expert” watches Miss Rehana descend from the bus and go to the consulate gates, where a guard tells her that the English officials are still eating breakfast. Muhammad Ali is immediately taken in by her beauty. Although he normally is paid for his advice...
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