The Moor's last sigh /
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c1995.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 435 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0679420495
- 9780679420491
- 0676506909 (pbk.)
- 9780676506907 (pbk.)
- 823/.914 20
- PR6068.U757 M66 1995
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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F | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Fiction | F RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | PR6068.U757 M66 1995 | 1 | Available | 34562000017185 |
Originally published: London : J. Cape.
A house divided -- Malabar Masala -- Bombay central -- 'The Moor's last sigh'.
A family saga reflecting the troubled state of India. The protagonists are four generations of the da Gama, who became wealthy in the spice trade before declining into gangsterism. Their tale is narrated by the family's last descendant and he attributes their fall to bickering, a reflection of Hindu-Moslem strife plaguing India today. Peopled with odd characters--the narrator is the product of a Jewish father and a Christian mother--the novel is a pessimistic counterpoint to the author's optimistic Midnight's Children, on India's struggle for independence.
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