It rebukes mediocre stories and storytelling with a political agenda. It calls for a greater appreciation of ancient stories, stories in other languages, and stories that are just plain fun. 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. At its heart, Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a love letter to stories and a celebration of the craft of storytelling. 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. Things take a turn for the worse when Soraya stops singing. Rashid is a storyteller, and Soraya loves to sing. 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. Haroun is a young boy who lives with his parents, Soraya and Rashid Khalifa, in a city so sad it's forgotten its name, in the country of Alfibay. OL457172W Page_number_confidence 86.64 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220212105751 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 587 Scandate 20220130010329 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780613495639 Tts_version 4.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. Urn:lcp:harounseaofstori0000rush_m3b0:lcpdf:62117546-7a37-47ba-a932-3e40d5a51daf Haroun Khalifa loved the feeling of getting soaked to the skin in the first rain of the year, so he skipped about and got a wonderful warm drenching, and opened his mouth to let the raindrops plop on to his tongue. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:11:26 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40340823 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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