Libro The Moor's Last Sigh De Salman Rushdie

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage Canada

Autor

Salman Rushdie

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

435

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

9780394281971

ISBN13

9780394281971

N° edición

The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie (Autor) · Vintage Canada · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Moor's Last Sigh"

Excerpts from Wilkpedia: The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. Set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin, it is the first major work that Rushdie produced after the The Satanic Verses affair, and thus is referential to that circumstance in many ways, especially the isolation of the narrator, as well as the shadow of death that seems constantly to hang over him. It is written in the same style as Midnight's Children, and raises issues of individuality and the possibility of hybridity in a world moving toward singularity. The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called "Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and also has a deformed hand. The book also focusses heavily on the Moor's relationships with the women in his life, including his mother Aurora, who is a famous national artist; his first female tutor; and his first love, a charismatic, demented sculptress named Uma..