It is a crazily wonderful mix of fantasy, fairytale, allegory, humour and activism. Haroun is one of my all-time favourite books, one that I would choose if I was allowed to read just five books my whole life. The new edition of this book was published by Penguin India in 2000, and is available in the form of a paperback. Haroun And The Sea Of Stories is a book which depicts the adventures of Haroun in the Sea of Stories. There, Haroun discovers a hidden world where a battle is being waged between two rival kingdoms. Upon his request, he is taken to the magical Sea of Stories with the help of an artificial intelligence nicknamed Butt.
Haroun, appalled at the idea, demands to speak to the Water Genie’s superior. On their journey in Buttoo’s yacht, Haroun stumbles upon the Iff, the Water Genie who plans to detach Rashid’s imagination. Rashid soon works for local politicians, and along with Haroun, is sent to the Valley of K to speak on behalf of a politician named Snooty Buttoo. Haroun lives with his father named Rashid, a locally famous storyteller whose wife, Soraya (also Haroun’s mother), is seduced by the neighbour. The name of the main character in this book is Haroun, whose magical experiences are depicted through the pages. It is the fourth book by the popular author who dedicated this book to his son, from whom he had been separated for a while. If you have any imagination and you love a fairytale then Haroun and the Sea of Stories is one for you.Written by the world-famous writer, Salman Rushdie, Haroun And The Sea Of Stories is a fantasy book that can be enjoyed by children as well as adults. It has some nice, but not laboured, moral messages, especially about girls/women having to hide who they really are to get on in a man’s world and another about the power of stories to change the world. It’s not a dark tale, though are elements of ‘danger’ but nothing that’s going to scar small children. Rushdie’s quirky characters mix with the sense of India (though one of initials and valleys) to create something completely removed from reality to form a place of pure storytelling pleasure.
Rather than being a lone child’s adventure Haroun has an unexpected family member around him. Haroun’s father is the greatest of all storytellers but one day something goes wrong and all his stories dry up, something that Haroun feels is his fault but he gets the chance to visit the Sea of Stories and to restore his father’s story tap.Īnd it’s as bizarre as that, unlike Valente which resists the modern, Rushdie includes machines and mechanisms that ground his imaginative world. To be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to this one as I didn’t know how Rushdie would handle telling a children’s story and I was totally surprised how wonderful it was.
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