The Moor's Last Sigh: Costa Novel Award -- Salman Rushdie

<i>Time</i> Magazine's Best Book of the Year <p/>Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes Moor Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Salman Rushdie<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 01/14/1997<br><b>Pages:</b> 448<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.80lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.96d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679744665<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 8.3<br><b>Point Value:</b> 29<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>66094 / Moor's Last Sigh<br><br><b>Award:</b> Costa Book Awards - Winner<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times</i> 02/02/1997 pg. 28<br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 11/25/1996<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Salman Rushdie is the author of nine books, including <i>Shame, Midnight's Children, East, West, </i> and <i>The Satanic Verses</i>. In 1993 <i>Midnig