Title : The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie - Book

Summary :

The disappearance of great-grandfather Francisco, swallowed by the churning waters of a lagoon somewhere on the southern coast of India, is the first of a long series of dramas set within the improbable Gama-Zogoiby family, from which the narrator Moraes, known as "The Moor," comes. He is the only, deformed son of the vivacious Aurora who, on bags of pepper, cardamom, and cumin, seduced the humble Abraham. Very quickly, the escapades of this stunning and perverse beauty will lead the Moor and his family into situations as comical as they are uncomfortable and perilous, from the murky waters of Bombay's slums to the corrupt circles of high finance. Blending comedy and farce, the epic and the marvelous, this allegory on the world's disorders is the author's first novel since The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie here returns to the vain picaresque of Midnight's Children, and his delicious and sensual writing, as much as his prodigious power of evocation, places him at the forefront of the writers of our time. Salman Rushdie, born in 1947 in Bombay, has lived in Great Britain since 1961. His books have all been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes and have been translated into twenty-five languages.

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