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RUSHDIE**, SALMAN: : THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH.** [Ltd/numbered, facsimile SIGNATURE.]

LONDON.CAPE,1995.

ISBN 0394281225.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,Ltd/numbered, facsimile SIGNATURE,1st edn.NMINT - unread. Special edition,chosen by WATERSTONES,to celebrate the opening of their 100th bookshop in READING,UK.Specially bound for WATERSTONE'S in blue cloth,gilt letters with WATERSTONE'S name to front board and facsimile signature of SALMAN RUSHDIE below.Ltd,numbered edn No.805/2500 only as issued,no dw/dj,nor slipcase.Also includes headed company notepaper,typed letter to manager explaining the gift and production of this special edition. Perhaps Rushdie's most masterful work.A carnival of magic realism - complex,comic, and political.It is religious,profane,idealistic,a gadfly. Moraes,known as "the Moor" is a mishmash of disparate identities.His mother,Aurora,"the outlaw bandit queen" of Bombay,descends from the Portuguese; his father,from a tribe of Cochin Jews; and he is,perhaps,the descendant of Boabdil,the last Moorish Sultan of Granada.His life is a metaphor for the divisiveness of India,its intolerance,instability,and bounty, moving perhaps too fast for its own good,too fast to secure an identity.Moraes lives life at "double speed".At age thirty-six,he has the body of a seventy-two-year-old.Moraes is exiled by Aurora,who is beautiful, turbulent,both loving and hateful: a mother like Mother India.He narrates not only his family's history,and where it went wrong,but India's as well.He wants to set the record straight and to counter the history proffered by what he calls "Hindufundamentalist triumphalism." His is a story of schisms and passion,revenge and prejudice.It is about democracy that soured and secularism that proved untenable.[GT.] View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. Want more Salman RUSHDIE titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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