Author: RUSHDIE, SALMAN
Title: The Moor's last sigh / Salman Rushdie
Description: London : Jonathan Cape 1995. 1st edition. 1st printing. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped dw. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 434 pages; Physical desc.: 434p. 24cm. Subjects: Indic fiction (English) - 20th century. English fiction - Modern fiction. Review: A huge. and hugely imaginative work. which confirmed Rushdie as one of this country's finest talents. Taking the form of a family saga. the novel concerns the vicissitudes of the Da Gama-Zogoiby dynasty. as they feud and fornicate. rebel and reconcile. across a century of wider conflict and decay. from the 1870s to the present day. The eponymous Moor is Moraes Zogoiby. sibling of Ina. Minnie and Mynah. heir to the family's millions and narrator of this tale of lost opportunities. Some readers will search for political allegory (sectarianism. bigotry and superstition are all strong themes) but most will simply relish the book and will celebrate Rushdie not as a political phenomenon but as a writer whose prose style bursts with the playful unconstrained possibilities of language. (Kirkus UK).Weight in Kg appr.:

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