Прощальный вздох мавра

Salman Rushdi - vsemirno izvestnyĭ britanskiĭ pisatelʹ indiĭskogo proiskhozhdenii͡a, avtor 16 knig, perevedennykh bolee, chem na 40 zykov. Ego roman "Deti polunochi" poluchil Bukerovskui͡u premii͡u, "Bukera Bukerov", a v 2008 godu byl nazvan luchsheĭ knigoĭ za 40 let sushchestvovanii͡a premii."Proshchalʹnyĭ vzdokh mavra" - pi͡atyĭ po schetu roman pisateli͡a, udostoennyĭ Uitbredovskoĭ premii (1995) i premii Aristeion (1996), a takzhe voshedshiĭ v shot-list Man Booker Prize. Ego glavnyĭ geroĭ Moraish Zogoĭbi, po prozvishchu Mavr, rasskazyvaet istorii͡u svoeĭ semʹi - chetyrekh pokoleniĭ dinastii torgovt͡sev spet͡sii, vedushchikh svoĭ rod ot portugalʹskogo puteshestvennika Vasko da Gamy. No da Gama - ne edinstvennyĭ velikiĭ predok. Sredi svoikh predshestvennikov Mavr nazyvaet Boabdili͡a, poslednego ėmira Granady - togo samogo, v chestʹ kotorogo nazvan znamenityĭ granadskiĭ pereval "Proshchalʹnyĭ vzdokh mavra". Imenno otsi͡uda brosil on svoĭ proshchalʹnyĭ vzgli͡ad na zakhvachennui͡u neprii͡atelem Alʹgambru. Simvolichno, chto v samom nachale romana my vidim Mavra v andaluzskom (pravda, vymyshlennom) gorodke Benenkheli, gde on nachinaet svoi͡u semeĭnui͡u sagu s istorii svoeĭ materi - vydai͡ushcheĭ khudozhnit͡sy Aurory, zhenshchiny s vlastnym kharakterom i ostrym, slovno indiĭskie spet͡sii, i͡azykom…"Proshchalʹny vzdokh Mavra" obʺedinil v sebe vsë to, za chto vo vsem mire t͡seni͡at prozu Rudshi: realʹnostʹ i vymysel, tradit͡sii i sovremennostʹ, li͡ubovʹ i nenavistʹ, strasti i dobrodeteli, pobedy i porazhenii͡a… U vas ne budet inogo vykhoda, krome kak vli͡ubitʹsi͡a v ėtu udivitelʹnui͡u knigu, s golovoĭ okunuvshisʹ v volshebnui͡u i mani͡ashchui͡u atmosferu Bombei͡a, propitannogo aromatami t͡svetov i spet͡siĭ.

Salman Rushdie is a world–famous British writer of Indian origin, the author of 16 books translated into more than 40 languages. His novel "Midnight's Children" won the Booker Prize, "Booker Booker", and in 2008 was named the best book in 40 years of the award's existence."The Farewell Sigh of the Moor" is the fifth novel by the writer, awarded the Whitbread Prize (1995) and the Aristeion Prize (1996), and also included in the Man Booker Prize shortlist. Its main character Moraish Zogoibi, nicknamed the Moor, tells the story of his family – four generations of a dynasty of spice merchants, descended from the Portuguese traveler Vasco da Gama. But da Gama is not the only great ancestor. Among his predecessors, the Moor names Boabdil, the last emir of Granada – the one after whom the famous Granada pass "Farewell Sigh of the Moor" is named. It was from here that he cast his farewell glance at the Alhambra captured by the enemy. It is symbolic that at the very beginning of the novel we see the Moor in the Andalusian (though fictional) town of Benenheli, where he begins his family saga with the story of his mother – an outstanding artist Aurora, a woman with a domineering character and a tongue as sharp as Indian spices..."The Moor's farewell sigh" combines everything for what Rudshi's prose is valued all over the world: reality and fiction, traditions and modernity, love and hate, passions and virtues, victories and defeats… You will have no choice but to fall in love with this amazing book, plunging headlong into the magical and alluring atmosphere of Bombay, saturated with the aromas of flowers and spices.