Salman Rushdie - Moor's Last Sigh

Pros: Magnificent, endearing, whole.

Cons: Many references to literature and history, but you don't have to catch every one.

The Bottom Line: A masterful novel. Surrender your expectations and it will invite you in.

Review:

This opinion marks a sad occasion, the news that one Islamic extremist group has announced a renewed death threat against Salman Rushdie for the alleged heresies that occur in his early novel The Satanic Verses. Apparently, they feel...

Pros: exquisite language, excellent story, characterisation, background

Cons: Causes a major craving for Indian food!

Review: Salmon Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh is a heady, sensual, wordy, moving, funny, wonderful book. It does for the English language what Joyce’s Ulysses did over a century ago, expanding our vocabulary and consequently our ability to perceive and describe...

Pros: very well written, wonderful characters

Cons: may be too complicated for some readers, especially those unfamiliar with India

Review: 'Moor' Zogoiby, the protagonist, is very reminescent of Salman Rushdie himself. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the fatwa that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice...

Pros: Lyrical reading. The same ol' Rushdie prose.

Cons: May be compared to Midnight's children by the same author in parallel themes.

The Bottom Line: Get ready for a sensory overload! Rushdie gives the book just the right amount of drama to gain sympathy for the character. Go ahead and read it!

Review: The Moor's Last Sigh? The first novel to come out of Salman Rushdie after the Iranian government issued a death sentence against him for allegedly blaspheming the Koran. The Moor in the title though, refers to Moares Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of...

Pros: Well-written, poetic and sensual: a sensitive story of a freak

Cons: If you've tried Rushdie before and disliked him, steer clear

Review: Salman Rushdie is never one to disappoint, and the 'Moor's last sigh' is an intense continuation of this marvellous trend. The book is a sensually written fictional biography, with trademark Rushdie attention to detail and plausible prose. It is as if we...

Pros: Makes a good doorstop...

Cons: ...You could just shut the door

Review: The fatwa obviously had an effect on Rushdie - and the empty vessel of The Moor's Last Sigh shows that it wasn't good.
Written whilst stuck in hiding, TMLS is a shadow of everything that has gone before it; an epic tale of the Indian subcontinent...