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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
- 1995
Jan 1, 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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The “Moor’s Last Sigh” refers to a variety of moors and sighs. It is the defeated sound made by the real historical figure Muhammad XI (or Boabdil to the Spanish), the last Moorish sultan on the Iberian Peninsula, when the newly powerful Catholic kings of Counter-Reformation Spain betrayed and defeated him in 1492.
May 11, 1995 · The Moor’s Last Sigh. 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 ...
Jul 29, 2013 · The Moor's last sigh. by. Salman Rushdie. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Large type books, India -- Fiction. Publisher. G.K. Hall.
About The Moor’s Last Sigh NATIONAL BESTSELLER • T he Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses 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 ...
Jan 14, 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.
