The Moor’s Last Sigh (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Salman Rushdie
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: India and Spain
- Principal Characters: Moraes Zogoiby, Aurora da Gama, Abraham Zogoiby, Raman Fielding, Nadia Wadia
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: History, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Islam, India or East Indian people, Hindus or Hinduism, Spices
- Locales: Spain, India
That The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie’s sixth novel, did not win Great Britain’s most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, is both unfortunate and understandable. It is unfortunate because The Moor’s Last Sigh is a remarkable book that rises far above the difficult conditions under which it was written and to which it obliquely refers. Indeed, this post-fatwā Rushdie fiction clearly does deserve the kind of praise that reviewers, mindful of the author’s plight, lavished on his two previous books. This is not to suggest that Haroun and the...
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