Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies

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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 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...

Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies

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