RUSHDIE'S LATEST IS INTRIGUING EVEN WITHOUT ITS CONTROVERSY THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH IS BANNED IN INDIA, BUT ITS OFFENSES TO RELIGION ARE FEW, AND ITS INTRICATE FAIRY TALE IS ENGROSSING.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: March 3, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: LENORE HART

THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH

A Novel

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Pantheon. 435 pp. $25.

It's been said that if a writer isn't making someone mad, he's not doing his job. Salman Rushdie has obviously taken this to heart. Forget bad reviews. Rushdie managed, with The Satanic Verses, to enrage all Iran, earning a death sentence. Now he's persona non grata in India. His latest novel has been banned there.

A pity for India's readers. The Moor's Last Sigh is delightful, imaginative and thought-provoking.

It's the testament of Moraes ``Moor'' Zogoiby, son ...

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