The Moor's Last Sigh [L0126]

1995. PB in nice clean condition. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The 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 fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. "Fierce, phantasmagorical ... a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel." -The New York Times ; 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 premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

From recent mixed Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I now count this novel among my favorites in the magical realism genre. Rushdie creates complex, fascinating and often deeply-flawed characters, and then weaves them into a narrative spanning continents and centuries amidst some of history's most intriguing moments. Highest praise."; "Great writing and I wanted to give the story a higher rating, but, couldn’t relate to the characters. Ultimately felt it was too long."; "This is such a deliciously Indian book to the point that it breaks my heart that the country has abandoned the author. Always in love with Rusdie's prose, this book was also his most accesible of the ones that I have read. The first book to come out in the period of banishment, one wouldn't be able to tell the author's predicament because the candor and joy in the writing remains intact. My favorite Rushdie so far."; "Rushdie writes beautiful chapters that could stand on their own, plucks nice turns of phrases, constructs a perfect stream of sentences, and somehow fuses them into a coherent novel. There are sad yearnings (really sad), there are laugh-out-loud turns, and amazement, rhythm, and jewels on every page. Salman Rushdie is a big, big, stylistic, melodic writer. The Moor's Last Sign is a wonderful, full and rich saga by an author who continues to astonish."