1995The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie
Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby narrates the fall of his family, the fabulously mixed da Gama-Zogoiby spice dynasty of Cochin, from the pepper warehouses and the old Jewish quarter of Mattancherry to the art and gangland of Bombay, and at last to an exile in Andalusia that rhymes with the fall of Moorish Granada. Rushdie roots the saga in a real south India: the spice trade of Cochin, the Paradesi synagogue, the harbour of Vasco da Gama's landfall, and the far cities to which the family's ruin carries the Moor.
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