Salman Rushdie - Moor's Last Sigh

Pros: Magnificent, endearing, whole.
Cons: Many references to literature and history, but you don't have to catch every one.

This opinion marks a sad occasion, the news that one Islamic extremist group has announced a renewed death threat against Salman Rushdie for the alleged heresies that occur in his early novel The Satanic Verses. Apparently, they feel...

Pros: very well written, wonderful characters
Cons: may be too complicated for some readers, especially those unfamiliar with India

'Moor' Zogoiby, the protagonist, is very reminescent of Salman Rushdie himself. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the fatwa that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice...

Pros: exquisite language, excellent story, characterisation, background
Cons: Causes a major craving for Indian food!

Salmon Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh is a heady, sensual, wordy, moving, funny, wonderful book. It does for the English language what Joyce’s Ulysses did over a century ago, expanding our vocabulary and consequently our ability to perceive and describe...

Pros: Makes a good doorstop...
Cons: ...You could just shut the door

The fatwa obviously had an effect on Rushdie - and the empty vessel of The Moor's Last Sigh shows that it wasn't good.
Written whilst stuck in hiding, TMLS is a shadow of everything that has gone before it; an epic tale of the Indian subcontinent...

Pros: Lyrical reading. The same ol' Rushdie prose.
Cons: May be compared to Midnight's children by the same author in parallel themes.

The Moor's Last Sigh? The first novel to come out of Salman Rushdie after the Iranian government issued a death sentence against him for allegedly blaspheming the Koran. The Moor in the title though, refers to Moares Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of...

Pros: Well-written, poetic and sensual: a sensitive story of a freak
Cons: If you've tried Rushdie before and disliked him, steer clear

Salman Rushdie is never one to disappoint, and the 'Moor's last sigh' is an intense continuation of this marvellous trend. The book is a sensually written fictional biography, with trademark Rushdie attention to detail and plausible prose. It is as if we...