The Moor's Last Sigh
by Salman Rushdie
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679744665
Publisher: Vintage
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, a member of a middle-class
business family. He was educated at Bombay's Cathedral School, at Rugby
School in England, and earned an M.A. in history at King's College, Cambridge.
He worked in Pakistani television, as an actor in London, and as an advertising
copywriter before becoming a full-time writer.
Rushdie's novel Midnight's
Children, a family saga of post-Independence India, won the 1981 Booker
Prize, England's highest honor for fiction, and also the Booker of Bookers
in 1993. In 1989, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses,
the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, claiming that the book defamed "Islam,
the Prophet and the Koran," declared a fatwah against Rushdie,
offering a bounty of three million dollars for his life. For the last
seven years Rushdie has lived in hiding, making only rare appearances
but producing four books: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a children's
story; East, West, a book of short fiction; Imaginary Homelands,
a collection of essays and criticism; and The Moor's Last Sigh,
his newest work. Rushdie has one son, Zafar.
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