The Moor's Last Sigh
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'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**
Customer Reviews
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This was the one that made me appreciate Rushdie and his writing/telling style. Great story and colourful characters and delightful references to momentous events and history of Spain and India. Enchanting yarn with all the exotic and spicy ingredients of politics, romance, rivalry, power and tragedy.