The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh

by SalmanRushdie (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Media Reviews
'A wonderful book' Independent on Sunday Salman Rushdie's greatest novel...held me in its thrall and provided the richest fictional experience of 1995 Sunday Times Rushdie is still our most exhilaratingly inventive prose stylist, a writer of breathtaking originality Financial Times Endlessly inventive, witty, digressional and diverting Observer
Author Bio
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the `Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.