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Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism,... read more
Characters/People edit
- Abraham Zogoiby: Add a description of this character.
- Aurora Zogoiby
- Vasco Miranda
- Mainduck
- Uma Sarasvati
- Sammy Hazare
- Camoens
- Carmen
- Minnie
- Aurora Da Gama
- Lambajan
- Belle
- Jawaharlal
- Renegada
- Oliver D'aeth
- Menezes
- V. Miranda
- Isabella
- Gottfried Helsing
- Erasmo
- Malabar Hill
- Abie
- Cochin
- Kekoo Mody
- Flory Zogoiby
- Dom Minto
- Prince Henry
- Boabdil
- Abraham Zogolby
- Benengeli
- Lobo
- Chimene
- Moshe Cohen
- Jimmy
- Adam
- Salvador Medina
- Ezekiel
- Moraes Zogoiby
- Dhirendra
Setting & Locations edit
- Bombay Central
- Epifania
- Mother India
- Cabral Island
- Spain
- Elephanta
- Delhi
- England
- Little Alhambra
- Lima
- Fadia Wadia
- Buick
- Aires
- Heaven
- Bandra
- Lonavla
- Lord's Central House
- Germany
- Portia
- Mattancherri
- St Francis
- Mahalaxmi
- Pakistan
- Francisco
- Maharashtra
- Nehru
- Mumbai
First Sentence edit
I HAVE LOST COUNT of the days that have passed since I fled the horrors of Vasco Miranda's mad fortress in the Andalusian mountain-village of Benengeli; ran from death under cover of darkness and left a message nailed to the door.
Table of Contents edit
Part One: A House Divided
Part Two: Malabar Malasa
Part Three: Bombay Central
Part Four: 'The Moor's Last Sigh'
Series & Lists edit
This is book 113 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Information, and followed by Sabbath's Theater.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Salman Rushdie (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Dennis Leigh (Illustrator) - Jacket
- Marjorie Anderson (Designer) - Jacket Design
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-679-42049-5
Page Count: 435
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-679-42049-5
Page Count: 435
Awards edit
- Whitbread Book Award (1995: Novel, Winner)
- Aristeion Prize (1996, Winner)
- Man Booker Prize (1995, Shortlisted)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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