The Moor's Last Sigh

Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born crossbreed: me, Moraes Zogoiby, called “Moor” for most of my life, the only male heir to the spice-trade-‘n’-big-business millions of the da Gama-Zogoiby dynasty of Cochin, and of my banishment by my mother, Aurora, née da Gama, most illustrious of our modern artists.The Moor evokes his family’s often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India in this century. His is a tale of premature deaths and family rifts, of thwarted loves and mad passions, of secrecy and greed, of power and money, and of the even more morally dubious seductions and mysteries of art.The Moor’s Last Sigh is a stunningly conceived and gracefully realized treasure of a book.