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 TimesMoraes'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.

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Originally published: London : J. Cape.

<p>Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year<p>Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie 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. Moraes &quot;Moor&quot; 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. <p>&quot;Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.&quot;--New York Times</p><h3>Susan Shapiro</h3><p><P>"I was raised neither a Catholic nor a Jew. I was both and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was -- what's the word these days? <i>atomized</i>. Yessir: a real Bombay mix." So says Moraes Zogioby, known as Moor, the narrator of <i>The Moor's Last Sigh</i>. Salman Rushdie's first novel in seven years is his best work since 1980's brilliant <i>Midnight's Children</i>. Moor, who has a disorder that causes him to age at twice the normal speed, is the last surviving member of a crazy clan of wealthy South Indian spice merchants. He tells their insane, incestuous, violent domestic saga, which spans four generations. It centers on his beautiful mother, Aurora da Gama, a stubborn, passionate, Christian artist who, at 15, falls in love with the handsome Abraham Zogioby, a penniless, 35-year-old Jewish employee of her family. They marry and have four children: Ina, Minnie, Mynah and Moor. Betrayal, murder, and mayhem ensue. <P>Rushdie, the author of nine previous books -- including <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, which prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue his death sentence in 1989 -- alludes often to his own exile, the story of modern India and the dangers of art. At first the hyperbole, didactic asides, verbal puns, lyrical and lewd jokes, and slapstick routines seem a bit much, but if you stick with it, a cumulative magic takes hold. Rushdie's satiric, hysterically funny, political family tragedy is a masterpiece. -- <i>Salon</i></p>

435 p. ; 25 cm
A family saga reflecting the troubled state of India. The protagonists are four generations of the da Gama, who became wealthy in the spice trade before declining into gangsterism. Their tale is narrated by the family's last descendant and he attributes their fall to bickering, a reflection of Hindu-Moslem strife plaguing India today. Peopled with odd characters--the narrator is the product of a Jewish father and a Christian mother--the novel is a pessimistic counterpoint to the author's optimistic Midnight's Children, on India's struggle for independence
Set in modern India, this is a family saga of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords
Originally published: London : J. Cape
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A Family Saga Reflecting The Troubled State Of India. The Protagonists Are Four Generations Of The Da Gama, Who Became Wealthy In The Spice Trade Before Declining Into Gangsterism. Their Tale Is Narrated By The Family's Last Descendant And He Attributes Their Fall To Bickering, A Reflection Of Hindu-moslem Strife Plaguing India Today. Peopled With Odd Characters--the Narrator Is The Product Of A Jewish Father And A Christian Mother--the Novel Is A Pessimistic Counterpoint To The Author's Optimistic Midnight's Children, On India's Struggle For Independence. A House Divided -- Malabar Masala -- Bombay Central -- 'the Moor's Last Sigh'. Salman Rushdie. Originally Published: London : J. Cape. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 435).

Winner of England's prestigious Whitbread Ward, Rushdie's first novel in seven years is a peppery melange of genres: a deliciously inventive family saga; a subversive alternate history of modern India; a fairy tale as inexhaustibly imagined as any in The Arabian Nights; and a book of ideas on topics from art to ethnicity, from religious fanaticism to the terrifying power of love

"The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India in this century. His is a tale of premature deaths and family rifts, of thwarted loves and mad passions, of secrecy and greed, of power and money, and of the even more morally dubious seductions and mysteries of art."--BOOK JACKET.

Moraes Zogoiby offers a revealing account of his family, their evolving fortunes, and the lost world of possibilities in twentieth-century India, recounting a universe of family rifts, greed, dark passion, secrecy, power, and the mysteries of art

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.

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