(from the back cover:) A family saga combined with a chronicle of modern India, flavored with soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love.

Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, a "high-born crossbreed", narrates. He is the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords. Moor is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. And as he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave.
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I read this book years ago and remember little except that I liked it.