The Moor's Last Sigh

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/1997
ISBN: 9780679744665
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.96d
Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 02/02/1997 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 11/25/1996

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 66094 / Moor's Last Sigh
Reading Level: 8.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 29