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Synopsis
Salman Rushdie's first full-length novel since THE SATANIC VERSES is the story of a dynasty of spice traders in Bombay. The families in the story are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Jewish and Christian. Rushdie follows his usual circuitous route to the end of the story, but the telling of the story has always been the point for him: he is a post-modern Scheherazade.
| Size | | Length: | 435 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I have lost count of the days that have passed since I fled the horrors of Vasco Miranda's mad fortress in the Andalusian mountain-village of Benengeli; ran from death under cover of darkness and left a message nailed to the door."
Industry Reviews
"Peppered with politics and betrayal, sugared with art and love, well spiced with pimps, beauty queens, gangsters, freaks, fanatics and lunatics, 'The Moor's Last Sigh" is a grand family chronicle of the passionate love and business affairs of a grotesque and rich Indian family. This book, in its scope, its ambition, and its magic, most resembles 'Midnight's Children', the best of Salman Rushdie's previous novels....it proves that Rushdie is one of the most brilliant magicians of the English language writing now."
Times Literary Supplement - Orhan Pamuk (09/08/1995)
"Mr. Rushdie's new novel is so intricate, so multi-faceted, and so fast-moving that it keeps the reader dizzily enthralled from beginning to end....The characters speak with a wild, crackling eloquence; comic, horrible, and fantastic events merge and conflict; and the history of modern India rumbles in the background."
Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Bates (02/19/1996)
"Given the climate of uncertainty engendered by the fatwa, it is a tribute to Rushdie's talent and fortitude that he has not only continued working in fearful circumstances but also that he has, with his latest novel, produced a masterpiece....It should be stressed that this latest novel is often wildly funny."
Good Book Guide - John Keenan (10/19/1995)
"A triumph...A brave and dazzling fable...No retort to tyranny could be more eloquent."
New York Times Book Review - Norman Rush
"Huge, sprawling, exuberant...Filled with allusions to everything from 'Tristam Shandy' to 'The Lone Ranger', from 'Paradise Lost' to 'Alice in Wonderland', and crammed full with puns, wordplay, vulgar jokes, and lyrical asides."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
"He really is one of the world's great writers. One need only read the first sentence of this wondrous new novel...to feel its irresistible narrative pace, its openly melodramatic panache...This is a novel about love, identity, art, ambition, religion, politics, and death."
Washington Post Book World - Michael Dirda (01/07/1996)
"For sheer headlong inexhaustible inventive force and fury, there's been nothing like this in England since Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' in 1973. It's Nobel Prize time."
Pamuk
"All the reader might hope for is there: the beat and bounce of the writing; the pouring accumulation of the prose; the glissando of presentation and performance; the comic and the fantastic; the glowing, fast-flowering brand of imagination that makes history and wild invention, social fact, and verbal playfulness, into one single and vital compound. 'The Moor's Last Sigh' is a wonderful book."
Kakutani
"With this tremendous new novel Rushdie--soaring, swooping--lifts himself free of his contemporaries. He has written a love story. A wonderful, devastating love story...multilayered, funny crackling with references to ancient and modern cultures."
Kakutani
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