The Moor's Last Sigh (Paperback, Reissue)

A huge, and hugely imaginative work, which confirmed Rushdie as one of this country's finest talents. Taking the form of a family saga, the novel concerns the vicissitudes of the Da Gama-Zogoiby dynasty, as they feud and fornicate, rebel and reconcile, across a century of wider conflict and decay, from the 1870s to the present day. The eponymous Moor is Moraes Zogoiby, sibling of Ina, Minnie and Mynah, heir to the family's millions and narrator of this tale of lost opportunities. Some readers will search for political allegory (sectarianism, bigotry and superstition are all strong themes) but most will simply relish the book and will celebrate Rushdie not as a political phenomenon but as a writer whose prose style bursts with the playful unconstrained possibilities of language. Lisa Jardine, the eminent historian, declared that it 'weaves an extraordinary story about Portuguese merchants, Indian family life and the 15th-century pepper trade which is at once surreal, captivating and yet astonishingly accurate in its perceptions of those early days of international trade between East and West.' (Kirkus UK)

What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand. Moor falls in love, with a married woman; when their secret is revealed, both are expelled; a suicide pact is proposed, but only the woman dies. Moor chooses to accept his fate, plunges into a life of depravity in Bombay, then becomes embroiled in a major financial scandal. The novel ends in Spain, in the studio of a painter who was a lover of Moor's mother: in a violent climax Moor has, once more, to decide whether to save the life of his lover by sacrificing his own.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1996
First published:	1998
Authors:	Salman Rushdie
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	437
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-959241-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-09-959241-X
Barcode:	9780099592419

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