The Moor's Last Sigh
Alternative cover for ISBN 009959241XIn 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 by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life...
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Alternative cover for ISBN 009959241XIn 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 by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society - Rushdie because of the death sentence t
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 434
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Modern,
Magical Realism
"Straciłem już rachubę, nie wiem, ile dni minęło, odkąd uciekłem od okropności tej szalonej fortecy Vasco Mirandy w wiosce Benengeli w górach andaluzyjskich; pod osłoną mroku uszedłem śmierci, zostawiwszy kartkę przybitą do drzwi." Piąta powieść Rushdiego, następna po "Szatańskich wersetach", to s...
Somehow, sometime, I became allergic to the term "family saga" and avoided books labeled as such. I don't know why. The term brings to mind farmhouses and domesticity, kids and family secrets, struggles that are often first world problems I couldn't care less about. But, like stories about Manhattan...
Utterly, eye-crossingly, boring. I got 100 pages in, and still all we've done is talked about the boring lives of his privileged mother, grand-parents and great-grand-parents.
This is another hard book to rate and review. Rushdie is a smart, ingenious and purposeful writer. Everything is cleverly thought out and his use of language is magical. He bends the words with ease and brings out richer meanings. The plot is an original story that unfolds as a series of riddles...
There is something about the way Rushdie tells story that just captures me. His diction, wordplay, the whole feeling of exuberance and playfulness. A written Bollywood. Something I feel now is lacking in his newer books.
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