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3 unusual facts about The Moor's Last Sigh


The Moor's Last Sigh

The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995.

Set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin, it is the first major work that Rushdie produced after the The Satanic Verses affair, and thus is referential to that circumstance in many ways, especially the isolation of the narrator, as well as the shadow of death that seems constantly to hang over him.

The cover artwork for this book is by Dennis Leigh, more widely known as musician and multi-media artist John Foxx


Moorfoot Building

It is located at the foot of The Moor (a pedestrianised shopping street), close to the Sheffield Inner Ring Road.

Pinstone Street

Pinstone Street connects the two shopping areas of Fargate and The Moor in the centre of the city.

The Moor

Personification of the Moors, in their collective role as a medieval political force


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