The Moor's Last Sigh
Subtitle: A novel
Edition: 1st American ed edition
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: January 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780679420491
Subjects: Rushdie, Salman - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Spice trade; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Domestic fiction; India; Mothers and sons
First sentence: I HAVE LOST COUNT of the days that have passed since I fled the horrors of Vasco Miranda's mad fortress in the Andalusian mountain-village of Benengeli; ran from death under cover of darkness and left a message nailed to the door.
Description: The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India in this century. His is a tale of premature deaths and family rifts, of thwarted loves and mad passions, of secrecy and greed, of power and money, and of the even more morally dubious seductions and mysteries of art.