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Time Magazine's Greatest Book of the YearBooker prize winning writer Salman Rushdie includes a ferociously amusing family tale with a surreally imagined and often blasphemous share of contemporary Asia and tastes the combination with peppery soliloquies on artwork, race, religious fanaticism, and the frightening power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the final remaining scion of the dynasty of crime lords and Cochinese spruce retailers, can also be an exile and a compelling storyteller. As he moves a path that takes him from India to Spain, he results in an account of angry interests and volcanic household hatreds, of their mesmerized offspring and titanic matriarchs, of early deaths and curses that hit beyond the plot. "Intense, phantasmagorical,an enormous, expansive, modern novel."--Ny Times