num_pages: 448
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • T he 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 TimesMoraes "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.
language: English
title: The Moor's Last Sigh
titlecomplete: The Moor's Last Sigh
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, India, Indian Literature, Asia, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 13783
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Aristeion Prize
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group