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Article: THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH, by Salman Rushdie; Pantheon (448 pages, $25) (Sunday, 1-4, release) (BEGIN ITALICS) ''In a way I had been in Indian country all my life, learning to read its signs, to follow its trails, rejoicing in its immensity, in its inexhaustible beauty, struggling for territory, sending up smoke signals, beating its drums, pushing out its frontiers, making.(Originated from my way through its dangers, hoping to find friends, fearing its)
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- January 31, 1996
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cruelty, longing for its love. Not even an Indian was safe in Indian country, not if he was the wrong sort of Indian, anyway _ wearing the wrong sort of head-dress, speaking the wrong language, dancing the wrong dances, worshipping the wrong gods, travelling in the wrong company. ... In Indian country, there was no room for a man who didn't want to belong to a tribe. ...'' _ From ``The Moor's Last Sigh.''
By Carol McCabe
Providence Journal-Bulletin
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How does a besotted reader begin to describe ``The Moor's Last Sigh?'' Salman Rushdie's newest, best novel, set in India and Spain, contains elements of ``A Thousand and One Nights,'' ...
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