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Jul 4, 1996 · ISBN: 9780099592419. Number of pages: 448. Weight: 311 g. Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 26 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. Buy The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
Jul 29, 2013 · The Moor's last sigh by Salman Rushdie. Publication date 1996 Topics Large type books, India -- Fiction Publisher G.K. Hall Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
Jan 1, 1996 · Sir Salman Rushdie is the author of many novels including Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury and Shalimar the Clown. He has also published works of non-fiction including The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz and, as co-editor, The Vintage Book of ...
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Grimus. After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing–and ultimately the burden–of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality.
In The Moor’s Last Sigh, even as Rushdie’s narrative begins in the pungent and sweltering air of colonial Cochin’s by-lanes and culminates, rather unexpectedly, in a malicious thread of grudging vengeance in rural Andalusia, the gaze always lingers wistfully on Bombay itself, on its days of glory and its subsequent decline into mediocrity.
The Moor's Last Sigh Quotes Showing 1-30 of 69. “A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.”. ― Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh. 95 likes. Like. “We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”.
Summary. 'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times. Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of ...
