The Moor's Last Sigh
Ratings5
Average rating3.9
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Ratings5
Average rating3.9
In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled storytelling, informed by astonishing scope and ambition, by turns compassionate, wicked, poignant, and funny. From the paradise of Aurora's legendary salon to his omnipotent father's sky-garden atop a towering glass high-rise, the Moor's story evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes in a world of possibilities embodied by India in this century.
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Second reading: absolutely phenomenal. One of the best things about this book is how the author plays with language. He is writing in English, but the word play and sentence construction are unlike any english-language novel I've ever encountered before or since; it feels distinctly Indian, and it is glorious.
First reading: read this years ago in my Intro to the Novel course during my first semester of college. Can't remember what I thought of it aside from enjoying it.
