The Moor's Last Sigh
The Moor's Last Sigh is the German title of a novel by Salman Rushdie, who appeared in the original 1995 under the title The Moor 's Last Sigh. It is the first significant piece Rushdie, which appeared after the Satanic Verses.
Title
The title refers to the last known emir of Granada, Muhammad XII. , In what was then Spain as Boabdil el or Zogoibi ( " the unfortunate "). Pass in the Sierra Nevada, from which he looked back for the last time on the abandoned Granada, called Puerto del Suspiro del Moro ( "Pass the sigh of the Moor "). In Rushdie's novel Moor is the nickname of the narrator Maroes whose life at the time of narration coming to an end. His surname is Zogoiby, inspired by the nickname of Muhammad XII.
Content
The novel tells the story of the rich, Christian spice merchant dynasty because of Cochin (now Kochi Kerala ) to age Gama Zogoiby through the 20th century from the perspective of their last representative, Maroes Zogoiby whose nature it is twice as fast as normal people.
The family history described ranges from Maroes ' great-grandparents Francisco and Epifania da Gama on their sons Camoens ( Maroes ' grandfather) and Aires and their women Isabella and Carmen to his parents, the artist Aurora da Gama and the Cochin Jews Abraham Zogoiby, actually derived from the sultans of Granada.
Rushdie can Maroes about the ups and downs of the dynasty, the spice trade from Cochiner up to rule the underworld of Bombay and finally reach the total destruction of their empire and the flight Maroes ' to Spain, report.
The main focus of the novel is on the history of Aurora and Abraham, which in view of the historical background of the reunion of Christians and Jews - symbolizes 500 years - both India-based minorities. During the second half of the work, which is mostly in Bombay, in this context, the mafia structures in the city and generally spreading in India and also in Bombay Hindu nationalism are criticized.
Novels: Grimus | midnight children | shame and disgrace | The Satanic Verses | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | The Moor's Last Sigh | The ground beneath her feet | anger | Shalimar the Clown | The Enchantress of Florence | Luka and the Fire of Life
Other writings: Smile of the Jaguars. A journey through Nicaragua | East West | The Wizard of Oz | home countries of the imagination. Essays and criticism 1981-1991 | If you exceed this limit! writings 1992-2002
Autobiography of Joseph Anton
- Literary work
- Novel, epic
- Literature ( English )
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Salman Rushdie