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The Moor's Last Sigh

by Salman Rushdie

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ISBN13: 9780679744665
ISBN10: 0679744665
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Awards

1995 Whitbread Novel of the Year
Time magazine's Best Book of the Year
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Synopses & Reviews

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Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year <P>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. <P><BR>"Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times

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"The most complete and gratifying work to emerge from Salman Rushdie's imagination...The Moor's Last Sign is an exotic story, in its setting, in its characters, in its punning extravagance, and in its deeply human core. It is an extraordinary family saga...full of wonderful characters, and the insight born of genuine reflection...A remarkable spell of creativity."

-Edmonton Journal

"A rich, wonderfully readable novel." --Toronto Star

"One of the most wonderful works of political art I have encountered, a novel to rival Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, or Dante's Divine Comedy...The Moor's Last Sigh is one of the most admirable novels I've ever read." --Ottawa Citizen

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About the Author

Salman Rushdie is the author of nine books, including Shame, Midnight's Children, East, West, and The Satanic Verses. In 1993 Midnight's Children was adjudged The Booker of Bookers.

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Zmrzlina, October 6, 2007 (view all comments by Zmrzlina)
No surprises in this story... the telling has lots of twists but the turns are seen well in advance. A beautiful telling, nonetheless. Language so magical one forgives the predictable. Indian history, folklore and drama. I am not such a fool to take this fictional account as gospel, however I was motivated to go looking for more information about events and figures.

The one foreshadowing I cannot forgive involves a "walkman" and its use as a tool of destruction. Too mundane a plot my dear Mr. Rushdie!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679744665
Author:
Rushdie, Salman
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Mothers and sons
Subject:
India
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Sagas
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Spice trade
Subject:
India Fiction.
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series:
Vintage international
Series Volume:
no. 32
Publication Date:
January 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
8.08x5.30x.96 in. .80 lbs.
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