![]() ![]() This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose fa the r Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. A hybrid of Eastern and Western influences that draws on classic fantasy tales as diverse as The Wizard of Oz and One Thousand and One Nights, Haroun and the Sea of Stories follows the titular. ![]() But beyond its timely context, Rushdie’s beautiful descriptions, playful use of language, colorful characters and irrepressible sense of humor make for the kind of timeless, ageless adventure story that appears only a few times in a generation. Haroun And the Sea of Stories ( Penguin Drop Caps) (Salman Rushdie) The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. ![]() That the novel would be, in large part, an allegory for the relationship between art, tyranny and censorship was probably inevitable. A hybrid of Eastern and Western influences that draws on classic fantasy tales as diverse as The Wizard of Oz and One Thousand and One Nights, Haroun and the Sea of Stories follows the titular 12-year-old boy-who resides in an ancient Eastern city “so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name”-on a quest to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift for narrative. ![]() The next year, while under police protection and separated from his young son, the controversial author did something unexpected: He published a novel for children. In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in response to The Satanic Verses, which he deemed blasphemous. ![]()
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