{"product_id":"the-moors-last-sigh-costa-novel-award-paperback","title":"The Moor's Last Sigh: Costa Novel Award - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003e T\u003c\/b\u003ehe Booker Prize-winning, bestselling\u003c\/b\u003e author of\u003ci\u003e Midnight's Children \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses \u003c\/i\u003ecombines 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fierce, phantasmagorical ... a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoraes \"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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime Magazine's Best Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooker 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.\"--New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalman Rushdie is the author of nine books, including \u003ci\u003eShame, Midnight's Children, East, West, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1993 \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children \u003c\/i\u003ewas adjudged The Booker of Bookers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.08 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Costa Book Awards (1995)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Moor's Last Sigh\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 29\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723499507775,"sku":"9780679744665","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f2d35aba4673825b679bfacb4d5c23e8.webp?v=1765099369","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-moors-last-sigh-costa-novel-award-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}