a)
TITLE: The Moor's Last Sigh
AUTHOR: Salman Rushdie
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1995
EDITION: First
BINDING: Hardbound without the dust jacket
NO.OF PAGES: 437
SIZE:
Height: 24 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Depth: 4 cm
The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called "Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and also has a deformed hand. The book also focuses heavily on the Moor's relationships with the women in his life, including his mother Aurora, who is a famous national artist; his first female tutor; and his first love, a charismatic, demented sculptor named Uma.
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b)
TITLE: Midnight Children
AUTHOR: Salman Rushdie
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society
PLACE: London
YEAR: 2009
BINDING: Bound in buckram. Set in Photina with Pekin display
NO.OF PAGES: xvi + 538 including frontispiece and 8 color illustrations by Anna Bhushan
SIZE:
Height: 22.7 cm.br.Width: 16.5 cm
Depth: 4.7 cm
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981, and voted the Booker of Booker's in 1993, Midnight's Children is a captivating allegory of modern India, combining a family saga with the volatile events which shaped thisfascinating, complex and divided nation.
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c)
TITLE: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
AUTHOR: Salman Rushdie
PUBLISHER: Viking Children's Books
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1999
BINDING: Glazedpictorial boards with navy blue endpapers
NO.OF PAGES: 224 including 42 color and 21 B & W illustrations by by Paul Birkbeck
SIZE:
Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 20 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magiciansand fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating adaptation for the stage, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.
This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.
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