The Moor's Last Sigh
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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Narrated by:
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Taheen Modak
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By:
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Salman Rushdie
About this listen
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.
©1995 Salman Rushdie (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"Salman Rushdie's greatest novel." (Sunday Times)
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- Uncle Monty's Cat
- 13-05-2024
Superb grand opera of a tale.
The story was engaging and well-paced, teasing and enticing, tragic in places, in others, bordering on slapstick farce (though always knowing where to draw the line). If you already enjoy Rushdie’s writing, this will be a treat. If not, thisu is a great place to start. And the narration was first class - enjoyable to the last moment.
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- Ronan Doyle
- 02-08-2022
fantastic read
I loved the story, the way it was written, and wow was it a thrilling yarn. only complaint is the weird name choice for the Japanese woman at the end (being Japanese myself, aoi is a common name but ue is like your last name being "up" which is technically a word but I've never heard of it as a surname and it sounds really awkward) and the pronunciation of it as well.
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