The Moor's Last Sigh
RUSHDIE Salman
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What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - crumble?
The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself at such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand.
Moor falls in love, with a married woman; when their secret is revealed, both are expelled: a suicide pact is proposed, but only the woman dies. Moor chooses to accept his fate, plunges, into a life of depravity in Bombay, then leaves for London where he becomes embroiled in a major financial scandal.
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Publication date: 1995-09-29
Number of pages: 437
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Subjects:
Category, Fiction, Contemporary
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