The Moor's Last Sigh: Costa Novel Award (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679744665)

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 Times

Moraes "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.

Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN-10: 0679744665
ISBN-13: 9780679744665
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/14/1997
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.96d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.3
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 66094 / Moor's Last Sigh

Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/02/1997 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 11/25/1996