Salman Rushdie asks what we do when the world’s walls - its family structures, its value systems, its political forms - start to crumble. "India has produced a great novelist... a master of perpetual storytelling." - V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker‘Moor’ Zogoiby finds himself in such a moment of crisis. Moor first 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. In response, Moor plunges into a life of depravity in Bombay, and then becomes embroiled in a major financial scandal. The novel ends in Spain, in a violent climax. Moor has, once again, to decide whether to save the life of his lover by sacrificing his own."Rushdie, the author of nine previous books — including The Satanic Verses, 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, cumulative magic takes hold. Rushdie’s satiric, hysterically funny, political family tragedy is a masterpiece.” - SalonSalman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007. Rushdie is the author of 14 novels - Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which won the 1981 Booker Prize), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte (shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize). He has also written a collection of short stories and four works of non-fiction. Rushdie was shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize.
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