description: 4 cassettes / 6 hoursRead by Art MalikTime Magazine's Best Book of the YearBooker 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 "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. "Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times
language: English
title: The Moor's Last Sigh
titlecomplete: The Moor's Last Sigh
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Indian Literature, India, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 13783
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Aristeion Prize
publisher: Random House Audio