The Moor's Last Sigh
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Jul '96
Should be back in stock very soon
'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
A family 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.
'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times
Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds.
But does the India of his parents - populated by extravagant artists, piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings - still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes' epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world, and also its last hurrah.
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
"'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
- Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1995
- Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995
ISBN: 9780099592419
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 26mm
Weight: 311g
448 pages