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Moor's Last Sigh

by Salman Rushdie

3.7
(29 ratings)
450 pages1995Penguin Random HouseISBN 9780099700616
Plot drivenWeak Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersFictionFantasyClassicsEnglish fictionsadFamilyDomestic fictionAmerican fictionFamiliesDrama
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About this book

What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems - 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, an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Random House
Published
1995
Pages
450
ISBN
9780099700616
Language
en

About Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

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