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The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. It is set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin.
- Salman Rushdie
- Fiction novel
- 1995
- 1995
1 de jan. de 2001 · Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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11 de mai. de 1995 · The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie. A ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love.
Moraes “Moor” Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of ...
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In The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight's Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain.
14 de jan. de 1997 · TIME Magazine’s Best Book of the Year. “Fierce, phantasmagorical…a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.” --The New York Times. “Salman Rushdie’s greatest novel…held me is its thrall and provided the richest fictional experience of 1995.” --The Sunday Times.
Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh is a masterclass in the use of style and tone to enhance narrative depth and emotional impact. Through his distinctive approach, Rushdie immerses readers in a world where reality and myth intermingle, creating a tapestry rich in cultural and historical nuance.
