5/23/2023 0 Comments Haroun and the sea of stories bookBut 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. That the novel would be, in large part, an allegory for the relationship between art, tyranny and censorship was probably inevitable. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. Harouns father is the greatest of all storytellers. 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. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is Rushdie’s attempt to regain his authorial voice by returning to the most primal traditions of creation and heroism to denounce the silence imposed upon him by a dictator. Haroun, determined to return the storytellers gift to his father, flies off on the back of the Hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories - and so begins an fabulous, exciting and dazzling adventure. 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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