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Title:
THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH
By:
Salman Rushdie
Format:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
009959241X
ISBN 13:
9780099592419
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Publisher:
VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date:
4 July, 1996
Pages:
448
Description:
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, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.
Synopsis:
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, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.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.
Publication:
UK
Imprint:
Vintage
Prizes:
Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1995 Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995
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