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Article: Tales of the Alhambra: Rushdie's use of Spanish history in 'The Moor's Last Sigh.' (Salman Rushdie)(Postcolonialism, History, and the Novel)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 1997
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If history creates complexities, let us not try to simplify them.
-Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands
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Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh tells the complicated story of four generations of a Christian-Jewish family involved in the spice trade in India.(1) The political, financial, romantic, sexual, and emotional entanglements of the da Gama-Zogoiby family easily fill the 400 or so pages of the novel. But as if the Indian narrative were not complex enough, Rushdie creates a frame tale for the novel. The narrator and central character, Moraes Zogoiby, has composed most of the story while imprisoned by a madman named Vasco Miranda in a ...