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.
Product details
Attribute name |
Attribute value |
Author
|
Rushdie, Salman |
Dimensions
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133 x 202 x 25 mm |
Imprint
|
Vintage |
ISBN
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9780679744665 |
Language
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English |
Media type
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Paperback |
Original title
|
The Moor's Last Sigh: Costa Novel Award |
Page count
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448 |
Product no
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9780679744665 |
Publish date
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1997-01-14 |
Publisher
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Penguin Random House US |
RRP List price
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18.00 USD |
Weight
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352 g |