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| Title | : | The Moor's Last Sigh |
| Author | : | Salman Rushdie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | UK |
| Pages | : | Pages: 434 pages |
| Published | : | July 4th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Magical Realism. Literature. Contemporary. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Salman Rushdie
Paperback | Pages: 434 pages Rating: 3.93 | 12146 Users | 622 Reviews
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereMoraes '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. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine 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. The Moor's Last Sigh is a spectacularly ambitious, funny, satirical and compassionate novel. It is a love song to a vanishing world, but also its last hurrah.
~from the back cover
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| Original Title: | The Moor's Last Sigh |
| ISBN: | 009959241X (ISBN13: 9780099592419) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1995), Whitbread Award for Novel (1995), Aristeion Prize (1996) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 12146 Users | 622 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Moor's Last Sigh
I almost stopped reading this a number of times, but I have a thing about finishing books. Salman Rushdie is one wordy motherfucker, the opposite of what I tend to enjoy. He's all for the word play, the linguistic jokes, the rhyming slang and colorful Indian colloquialisms, which are cute for a while but wear thin. His narrative is baroque, dripping with dramatic asides and rhetorical questions to the reader, teasing hooks, and a number of other devices I don't enjoy. Still, I am interested inThat I could taste the smells of a land I'd never been to. That if I ever had a child, I would name it Aerish. That I could fall in love with the way this man took you on a little turn. I read this book every morning after I returned from coaching...a top the little village of Sha Tin in New Territories of Hong Kong...always with my Marks and Spencer from a box cappuccino. It was the first book I read there and I remember it so well because I got to actually enjoy it. I didn't have to run off to
Review part 1 - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...So dont let Rushdie fool you into thinking that it is Moor/Zogoibys story and heck!, theyre somewhat flat, or Rushdie makes an allegory and fails on both counts both the upperstory and understory are not well-developed happens when you want to ride two horses at once. But, oh, dear, it is one horse, not two. *sigh* this review just doesnt end. But Rushdie is a crazy fellow, maker of an atom bomb large scale destruction squeezed into a
This is another hard book to rate and review. Rushdie is a smart, ingenious and purposeful writer. Everything is cleverly thought out and his use of language is magical. He bends the words with ease and brings out richer meanings. The plot is an original story that unfolds as a series of riddles to a satirical account of modern India.Yet, in spite of all that, the book did not click with me. The characters remain puppets. As exotic cartoons they act out a sort of fable that sometimes appears
The Moors Last Sigh is a colorful, hard-hitting excursion into India. Squeezed into a paperback, it spans nearly a century, and through the tumultuous history of the Zogoibys as they enlarge their pepper trade in Cochin (wasnt it with spices, the hot pepper that it all started?) to a national scale diversification of all kinds of spices of life, cruising through the intense political scenes of Independence movement to newly-acquired freedom to communal bloodshed to Indira Gandhi-led Emergency to
Gripping and whimsical story spanning a century of one Indian family's business, artistic, and leisure endeavors. Rushdie's writing is like candy, with sweet turns-of-phrase and quirky Dickensian characters, leaving the reader craving the next page. With Garcia Marquez-ish elements of magical realism and a pervading sinister feeling, like Dumas.
A rich epic tale describing the rise and fall, and recovery, and meteoric rise again until its annihilation, of a business dynasty in colonial India, up to the end of the 1980's. The family claims to count Vasco Da Gama among its ancestors and generates or attracts plenty of interesting and eccentric characters with each generation, whose lives sometimes intertwine with historical figures and movements such as the Ghandi's, Nehru, the painter Amrita Sher-Gil, Hindu fanaticism, corruption etc.
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