The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned h...
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Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the con...
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In the following review, King offers a mixed review of The Moor's Last Sigh, contending that Rushdie “always manages to write powerfully about the defining issues of our time.”
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In the following review, Hussein relates the plot of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Moraes Zogoiby, nicknamed Moor—the half-Jewish, half-Christian narrator of The Moor's Last Sighȁ...
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Below, Hagedorn offers a positive review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
I don't review books as a rule, but could not resist the opportunity to speak up for Salman Rushdie's astonish...
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In the following review, Dirda finds The Moor's Last Sigh further evidence of his contention that Rushdie is among the world's greatest writers.
Over the past several years Salman Rus...
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Below, Eder presents a mixed review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Why is Moraes Zogoiby, disinherited scion of twin artistic and financial dynasties in Bombay, cowering in a graveyard across from...
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In the following review, the critic describes The Moor's Last Sigh as Rushdie's "passionate, often furious love letter to the country of his birth."
There's an un...
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In the following review, Caldwell describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "a parable of modern India."
In Salman Rushdie's vast, torrential ode to modern India, the streets ar...
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In the following review, Rush praises The Moor's Last Sigh as an apt response to the tyrannical reaction to The Satanic Verses.
Salman Rushdie's new novel, his first since the infamou...
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In the following review, Gray finds The Moor's Last Sigh's "leisurely wordiness is a mark of Rushdie's mastery."
Near the end of The Moor's Last Sigh, a ma...
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In the following essay, based on an interview with the author, Gray discusses the controversial nature of Rushdie's writing.
"My last novel, to put it mildly, divided its readers,�...
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In the following essay, based on an interview with the author, Barnton describes Rushdie's life since the fatwa.
London, Jan. 11—Having lunch with Salman Rushdie means being prepared ...
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In the following review, discusses Rushdie's public promotion of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Salman Rushdie was in town this week to promote his new novel, The Moor's Last Sigh, and ...
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In the following review, Wood presents an in-depth analysis of Rushdie's career, culminating with The Moor's Last Sigh.
The Moor's last sigh is several things, both inside and ...
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In the following review, Ryan describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "an extraordinary act of the imagination."
In 1989, Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses earned its ...
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In the following interview, Blades queries Rushdie on religion and the effect of the Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on his writing.
Name: Salman Rushdie
Job: Subversive novelist
S...
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Below, Adams presents a positive review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Mr. Rushdie's new novel is so intricate, so multi-faceted, and so fast-moving that it keeps the reader dizzily enthral...
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In the following review, Rubin remarks that "the Moor's outlandish friends, family, and enemies may begin to look a little more familiar than we'd like" in The Moor'...
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In the following review, Maitland suggests that The Moor's Last Sigh suffers from the fallout of the fatwa imposed upon its author.
Salman Rushdie is—and I think this can be said fair...
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In the following review, Wood offers a mixed assessment of The Moor's Last Sigh.
In 1835, Macaulay threw out one of those phrasal boomerangs that returns not to arm but to maim its sender: &...
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In the following review, Coetzee presents a deep analysis of The Moor's Last Sigh, noting its multilayered construction.
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The Moor's Last Sigh is a novel about modern India. Its her...
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Below, Wigston offers a positive review of the audio version of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Actor Art Malik read The Moor's Last Sigh, Rushdie's latest tour de force, in what is a ne...
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In the following review, Pamuk considers Rushdie's treatment of his homeland in his fiction, most recently in The Moor's Last Sigh.
Peppered with politics and betrayal, sugared with a...
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Below, the critic offers a positive assessment of The Moor's Last Sigh.
Not since Midnight's Children has Rushdie produced such a dazzling novel. Nor has he curbed his urgent indignat...
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In the following negative review of The Moor's Last Sigh, Bemrose remarks that "most of the novel reads like the vision of a harried mind that has lost touch with the pace and amplitude ...
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In the following review, Hooper describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "a marvelously wrought novel, guaranteed to entrance."
Rushdie's first novel since the fateful Satanic ...
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In the following essay, Burns describes reaction in India to The Moor's Last Sigh.
For Anuj Malhotra, a bookseller in this capital's affluent Khan Market district, the publication her...
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In the following review, Kakutani describes the ways in which the story and characters of The Moor's Last Sigh relate the author's own views of his native country.
In Salman Rushdie&#...
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In the following mixed review, Bowman asserts that The Moor's Last Sigh reads as if the author wrote it simply to prove that he could, and predicts that the book will offend Hindus as The Satan...
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Teaching The Moor's Last Sigh
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The Moor's Last Sigh Lesson Plans contain 119 pages of teaching material, including:
Salman Rushdie
(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Critical Review by Bruce King
