Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby, born with a withered hand and aging at twice the normal rate, tells the saga of his Cochin spice-trading family, dominated by his painter mother Aurora, tracing four generations of Indian history from colonial Malabar through Bombay's criminal underworld.
Books mentioned in The Moor's Last Sigh (4)
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “a well-read man with whom Camoens had enjoyed discussing Wordsworth's views on the French Revolution, Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', and Kipling's almost schizo...”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “he had taken the name of 'Fielding' as a genuflection to the author of Tom Jones”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “Spain's second-greatest knight-errant – El Cid, I mean, Rodrigo de Vivar, not Don Quixote”
The Godfather by Mario Puzo: “"I am not here to participate in some masala-movie remake of The Godfather, like some made-in-India Bollywood Mogambo," he said”