The Moor's Last Sigh

Type

Book

Authors

Rushdie, Salman

ISBN 10

0394281225

ISBN 13

9780394281223

Tags

Literary, India, Mothers and sons, Spice trade, Domestic fiction, Families, Indic fiction (English), American fiction

Abstract

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year. Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical ... a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Fiction
Family chronicles
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 0394281225 9780394281223 0679420495 9780679420491
OCLC Number: 671760086
Description: 434 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Salman Rushdie.

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