| The Moor's Last Sigh: Costa Novel Award Contributor(s): Rushdie, Salman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679744665 ISBN-13: 9780679744665 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie 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. 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.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95024392 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.3" W x 8.08" (0.80 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 66094 Reading Level: 8.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 29.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie 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. 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. |