Moor’s Last Sigh, The

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From Cochin, Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby, the final scion of a fantastical and illicit dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords, embarks on a journey that spans from India to Spain. An exile and a compulsive storyteller, Moor weaves a labyrinthine family saga. Prepare for a narrative filled with mad passions, volcanic hatreds, titanic matriarchs, their mesmerised descendants, premature deaths, and curses that linger beyond the grave.

About the Author

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize, Shame, winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The Satanic Verses, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which won the Writer’s Guild Award and The Moor’s Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East, West, a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile, a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands and a work of film criticism The Wizard of Oz. His most recent novel is The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which was published in 1999.Salman Rushdie was awarded Germany’s Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993, Midnight’s Children was voted the ‘Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.

9780099592419 ISBN
Myths, Legends & Sagas
Literature & Fiction