num_pages: 448
description: A ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India 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.
language: English
title: The Moor's Last Sigh
titlecomplete: The Moor's Last Sigh
genres: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, India, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Indian Literature, Asia
ratings_count: 13786
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Aristeion Prize
publisher: Pantheon