The Moor’s Last Sigh
Author: Salman Rushdie
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereMoraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is a ‘high-born crossbreed’, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of….Read More
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