Time Magazine's Best Book of the YearBooker 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 ter
The Moor's Last Sigh
β Scribed by Salman Rushdie
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 1996;1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307367746
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β¦ Synopsis
In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century.
From the Hardcover edition.
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