Annotation
Winner of England's prestigious Whitbread Ward, Rushdie's first novel in seven years is a peppery melange of genres: a deliciously inventive family saga; a subversive alternate history of modern India; a fairy tale as inexhaustibly imagined as any in The Arabian Nights; and a book of ideas on topics from art to ethnicity, from religious fanaticism to the terrifying power of love.
Awards
1995 Costa Book Awards
1996 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Characters
| Name | Zogoiby, Moraes "Moor" |
| Gender | Male |
| Trait | East Indian |
| Name | Zogoiby, Aurora da Gama |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Traits | Mother |
| Christian | |
| Heiress | |
| Name | Zogoiby, Abraham |
| Gender | Male |
| Traits | Father |
| Jewish | |
| Genre | Saga --Family Fiction |
| Topics | Mothers and sons Family secrets Family relationships |
| Setting | India |