The Moor's Last Sigh - Brossura

Rushdie, Salman

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ISBN 10: 0394281977 ISBN 13: 9780394281971

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 1996

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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.

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TIME Magazine’s Best Book of the Year

“Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.” The New York Times

“Rushdie, the author of nine previous books—including The Satanic Verses, which prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue his death sentence in 1989—alludes often to his own exile, the story of modern India and the dangers of art. At first the hyperbole, didactic asides, verbal puns, lyrical and lewd jokes, and slapstick routines seem a bit much, but if you stick with it, a cumulative magic takes hold. Rushdie’s satiric, hysterically funny, political family tragedy is a masterpiece.” Salon

“Salman Rushdie’s greatest novel...held me is its thrall and provided the richest fictional experience of 1995.” The Sunday Times

“The most complete and gratifying work to emerge from Salman Rushdie’s imagination.... The Moor’s Last Sigh is an exotic story, in its setting, in its characters, in its punning extravagance, and in its deeply human core. It is an extraordinary family saga...full of wonderful characters, and the insight born of genuine reflection...A remarkable spell of creativity.” The Edmonton Journal

“A rich, wonderfully readable novel.” Toronto Star

L'autore:

Sir SALMAN RUSHDIE is the multi-award winning author of eleven previous novels--Luka and the Fire of Life,Grimus, Midnight's Children (which won the Booker Prize, 1981, and the Best of the Booker Prize, 2008),Shame,The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh,The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence--and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published three works of non-fiction:The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 and Step Across This Line, and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. His memoir, Joseph Anton, published in 2012, became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. It was praised as "the finest memoir...in many a year" (The Washington Post). His books have been translated into over forty languages. He is a former president of American PEN.