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The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called "Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal ...
Imaginary Homelands is a collection of essays and criticism by Salman Rushdie. [1] The collection is composed of essays written between 1981 and 1992, including pieces of political criticism – e.g. on the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Conservative 1983 General Election victory, censorship, the Labour Party, and Palestinian identity ...
Muhammad XII was the son of Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of the Emirate of Granada whom he succeeded in 1482, [4] as a result of both court intrigue and unrest amongst the population at large. [5] Muhammad XII soon sought to gain prestige by invading Castile, but was taken prisoner at Lucena in 1483. [4] Muhammad's father was then restored as ruler ...
The Seventh Sign is a 1988 American apocalyptic drama horror film written by Clifford and Ellen Green and directed by Carl Schultz. The title and plot reference the seven seals described in the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament of the Bible. The film was released on April 1, 1988, by Columbia Pictures Entertainment under ...
Demi Moore’s new film, the feminist body horror “The Substance,” sees her bare it all, with several scenes featuring full nudity. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film on ...
8234329. Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the ...
1.95 m × 3.02 m (6 ft 5 in × 9.9 ft) Owner. Private collection. The Sigh of the Moor is an oil-on-canvas painting of Muhammad XII, (Boabdil), last Nasrid Emir of Granada. It was painted in the late 19th century by the Spanish artist Francisco Pradilla Ortiz. The painting depicts Boabdil, having ceded Granada to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain ...
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights . The Enchantress of Florenceis the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008.[1] According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading". [2] The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan CapeLondon, and in the United States by Random House.
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