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The Moor's Last Sigh
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Narrator
- Taheen Modak
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 5 November 2020
- Run Time
- 16 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Satirical fiction and parodies, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: politics / economics
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.
But does the India of his parents - populated by extravagant artists, piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings - still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes' epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world, and also its last hurrah.
'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times
© Salman Rushdie 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 5.0
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3.0 5.0
I don’t think the book knows what it is: the narration of the family history is interesting but could be more fully realized, and the final dramas of the account are unsatisfying and disjointed. Rushdie is able to scatter references at whim but rarely do they land with any real substance. Disappointing, but the audio narration was well-pitched.
markjarmuz 2024-11-03
Details
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- Narrator
- Taheen Modak
- Duration
- 16 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473584365
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Satirical fiction and parodies, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: politics / economics
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.But does the India of his parents - populated by extravagant artists, piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings - still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes' epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world, and also its last hurrah.'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times© Salman Rushdie 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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