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Salman Rushdie is the author of eight novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristelon Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
A huge, and hugely imaginative work, which confirmed Rushdie as one of this country's finest talents. Taking the form of a family saga, the novel concerns the vicissitudes of the Da Gama-Zogoiby dynasty, as they feud and fornicate, rebel and reconcile, across a century of wider conflict and decay, from the 1870s to the present day. The eponymous Moor is Moraes Zogoiby, sibling of Ina, Minnie and Mynah, heir to the family's millions and narrator of this tale of lost opportunities. Some readers will search for political allegory (sectarianism, bigotry and superstition are all strong themes) but most will simply relish the book and will celebrate Rushdie not as a political phenomenon but as a writer whose prose style bursts with the playful unconstrained possibilities of language. Lisa Jardine, the eminent historian, declared that it 'weaves an extraordinary story about Portuguese merchants, Indian family life and the 15th-century pepper trade which is at once surreal, captivating and yet astonishingly accurate in its perceptions of those early days of international trade between East and West.' (Kirkus UK)
