{"product_id":"the-moors-last-sigh-9780679744665","title":"The Moor's Last Sigh","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003e T\u003c\/b\u003ehe Booker Prize-winning, bestselling\u003c\/b\u003e author of\u003ci\u003e Midnight's Children \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses \u003c\/i\u003ecombines 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fierce, phantasmagorical ... a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoraes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679744665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Costa Book Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/02\/1997 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e66094 \/ Moor's Last Sigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.3 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 29\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salman Rushdie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451413467317,"sku":"9780679744665","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_76364b84-ae9c-47e4-ba67-a4d56489340c.jpg?v=1666108392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-moors-last-sigh-9780679744665","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}