Buy this book on-line Rushdie, Salman : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGHPantheon Books, New York, 1995 ISBN 0679420495
Front free endpaper out ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 435 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rushdie, Salman : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Rushdie, Salman : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGHJonathan Cape, 1995 ISBN 9780224038140
A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, not price clipped an ex-lib, or a BCE . In The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight's Children. This book is narrated b y Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Mo or, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rus hdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor b ecause he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Yet Moor's story of trav ail is bigger than Rushdie's; it encompasses a grand struggle between good and evil while Moor himself stands as allegory for Rushdie's home country o f India. Filled with wordplay and ripe with humor, it is an epic work. From Publishers Weekly Not since Midnight's Children has Rushdie produced such a dazzling novel. Nor has he curbed his urgent indignation or muffled his satiric tongue. In a spirited story related at a breakneck pace and crammed full of melodrama, slapstick, supple wordplay and literary allusions, Rushdie has again fashioned a biting parable of modern India. Telling his story "with death at my heels," the eponymous narrator relates the saga of a family whose religious, political and cultural differences replicate the fault lines by which India is riven. The Moor tells of "family rifts and premature deaths and thwarted loves and mad passions and weak chests and power and money and... the seductions and mysteries of art." He speculates on the duality of all things, the conflicting impulses of human nature and the clash between appearance and reality. Li, Near Fine/Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rushdie, Salman : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. RUSHDIE**, SALMAN: : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH.**LONDON.CAPE,1995. ISBN 0224038141.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated upper wrap,with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Head of spine/backstrip lightly bumped and top edge lightly creased,no nicks or tears present.Fore-edge lightly finger-marked. Contents bright,tight and pristine.Black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,bloked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,437pp.
Perhaps Rushdie's most masterful work.A carnival of magic realism - complex,comic,and political.It is religious,profane,idealistic,a gadfly.
Moraes,known as "the Moor" is a mishmash of disparate identities.His mother,Aurora,"the outlaw bandit queen" of Bombay,descends from the Portuguese; his father,from a tribe of Cochin Jews; and he is,perhaps,the descendant of Boabdil,the last Moorish Sultan of Granada.His life is a metaphor for the divisiveness of India, its intolerance,instability,and bounty, moving perhaps too fast for its own good,too fast to secure an identity.Moraes lives life at "double speed".At age thirty-six,he has the body of a seventy-two-year-old.Moraes is exiled by Aurora,who is beautiful,turbulent,both loving and hateful: a mother like Mother India.He narrates not only his family's history,and where it went wrong,but India's as well.He wants to set the record straight and to counter the history proffered by what he calls "Hindufundamentalist triumphalism." His is a story of schisms and passion,revenge and prejudice.It is about democracy that soured and secularism that proved untenable.[GT.]
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