The Moor's Last Sigh
3.7
(29 ratings)450 pages1995PantheonISBN 9780679420491
Plot drivenWeak Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersFictionFantasyClassicsEnglish fictionsadFamilyDomestic fictionAmerican fictionFamiliesDrama
challengingreflectivefastdarkfunnyreflectiveslow
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
- Pantheon
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 450
- ISBN
- 9780679420491
- 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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