As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical.

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a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times (less)

As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical.

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a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love.

Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

"Fierce, phantasmagorical..

.a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.

"--New York Times Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.

As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical.

..

a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love.

Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.

"Fierce, phantasmagorical..

.a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel.

"--New York Times Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical.

..

a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times About the Author : Salman Rushdie has contributed to The Moor's Last Sigh as an author.

Salman Rushdie's books, from "Midnight's Children" to "The Satanic Verses", have been read around the world. His recent book--"Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Imaginary Homelands 1981-90 ", and "The Moor's Last Sigh"--have enhanced his reputation as one of our most important contemporary writers (less)

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They'll rush me then. That's your chance to go out the back way.

Got that?'-'Quite clear.'-'Good! But don't think I'm exaggerating.

My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred. Yours are one in ten.

They'll kill you without the slightest compunction if they think you're with me. I don't know what you're doing here, but it doesn't matter.

Make for London. If you get there, tell them what happened.

'Biggles, Algy and Ginger accidentally arrive in Spain during the civil war. After a chance encounter with a British Intelligence agent who passes them a coded message which has to be got back to the Ministry of Defence in London, they are involved in a desperate chase to get back home with the evil chief of Intelligence and Propaganda after them.

About The Author Captain W. E.

Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918.

Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W.

E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.

'Don't move yet. I'm going out of the front door.

They'll rush me then. That's your chance to go out the back way.

Got that?'-'Quite clear.'-'Good! But don't think I'm exaggerating.

My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred. Yours are one in ten.

They'll kill you without the slightest compunction if they think you're with me. I don't know what you're doing here, but it doesn't matter.

Make for London. If you get there, tell them what happened.

'Biggles, Algy and Ginger accidentally arrive in Spain during the civil war. After a chance encounter with a British Intelligence agent who passes them a coded message which has to be got back to the Ministry of Defence in London, they are involved in a desperate chase to get back home with the evil chief of Intelligence and Propaganda after them.

About The Author Captain W. E.

Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918.

Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W.

E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to 'Don't move yet. I'm going out of the front door.

They'll rush me then. That's your chance to go out the back way.

Got that?'-'Quite clear.'-'Good! But don't think I'm exaggerating.

My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred. Yours are one in ten.

They'll kill you without the slightest compunction if they think you're with me. I don't know what you're doing here, but it doesn't matter.

Make for London. If you get there, tell them what happened.

'Biggles, Algy and Ginger accidentally arrive in Spain during the civil war. After a chance encounter with a British Intelligence agent who passes them a coded message which has to be got back to the Ministry of Defence in London, they are involved in a desperate chase to get back home with the evil chief of Intelligence and Propaganda after them.

About The Author Captain W. E.

Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918.

Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W.

E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to 'Don't move yet. I'm going out of the front door.

They'll rush me then. That's your chance to go out the back way.

Got that?'-'Quite clear.'-'Good! But don't think I'm exaggerating.

My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred. Yours are one in ten.

They'll kill you without the slightest compunction if they think you're with me. I don't know what you're doing here, but it doesn't matter.

Make for London. If you get there, tell them what happened.

'Biggles, Algy and Ginger accidentally arrive in Spain during the civil war. After a chance encounter with a British Intelligence agent who passes them a coded message which has to be got back to the Ministry of Defence in London, they are involved in a desperate chase to get back home with the evil chief of Intelligence and Propaganda after them.

About The Author Captain W. E.

Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918.

Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W.

E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)