The Moor's Last Sigh
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 1995
$26.13
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
9 August 1996
Summary
‘India has produced a great novelist…a master of perpetual storytelling’ - V.S. Pritchett, New Yorker
‘Salman Rushdie’s greatest novel’ - Sunday Times
Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099592419 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009959241X |
| Author: | Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 1996 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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”‘A wonderful book’ Independent on Sunday” “Salman Rushdie’s greatest novel…held me in its thrall and provided the richest fictional experience of 1995” Sunday Times “Rushdie is still our most exhilaratingly inventive prose stylist, a writer of breathtaking originality” Financial Times “Endlessly inventive, witty, digressional and diverting” Observer
About The Author
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife- Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.
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