The Moor's Last Sigh

<p><b>'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> <b>**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**</b></p>