The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Published 1995 · 437 pages · 109,250 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is The Moor's Last Sigh to read?
The Moor's Last Sigh scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 60 out of 100
- Indian, Moorish.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Rushdie's elaborate prose.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- India, identity, history.
- Information density: 65 out of 100
- Bombay, Cochin.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- First person, digressive.
- Symbolic density: 70 out of 100
- Moor, sigh, Alhambra.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Historical playfulness.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Death approaches.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Family saga.
How The Moor's Last Sigh is regarded
The Moor's Last Sigh holds a literary regard score of 50 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.