About the book: year / For Europeans, India was and remains a land of wonders. But what is it like when viewed from the inside? Salman Rushdie today is not only the most scandalous, but also the most authoritative Indian writer. The reader can trust him and his book The Moor's Farewell Sigh. The setting of this strange novel is incredible, bizarre, spicy Bombay. In its ghostly space, the life story of the main character, the wanderer Morais Zogoiby, nicknamed the Moor, is unfolding, full of adventures and hardships. “Portrait of a human soul in hell” - these words of poor Moor, perhaps, could well serve as an epigraph to the entire book. “Portrait of a human soul in hell” - these words from the sorrowful monologue of the main character of “The Moor’s Farewell Sigh” could preface the entire book Salman Rushdie. They are a kind of key to reading the novel - the story of the life, love, adventures and sufferings of the Moor - an intelligent, talented and deeply unhappy wanderer, lost in a strange, bizarre world, the paradise of ghostly Bombay...