by SalmanRushdie (Author)
Moares 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. The Moor's Last Sigh is a spectacularly ambitious, funny, satirical and compassionate novel. It is a love song to a vanishing world, but also its last hurrah.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 009959241X
ISBN 13: 9780099592419
Book Overview: 'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
Prizes: Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1995. Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995.