{"product_id":"9780099592419-moors-last-sighthe","title":"The Moor's Last Sigh","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain, he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But does the India of his parents - populated by extravagant artists, piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings - still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes' epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world, and also its last hurrah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942964473953,"sku":"9780099592419","price":9.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32162697.jpg?v=1737017694","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099592419-moors-last-sighthe","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}