![]() ![]() If you have any imagination and you love a fairytale then Haroun and the Sea of Stories is one for you. It is a crazily wonderful mix of fantasy, fairytale, allegory, humour and activism. ![]() Thus begins Rushdie's magical and delightful book, which is comprised of hundreds of stories, funny and sad, all of them juggled at once. 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. 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. In a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name, lived a professional storyteller named Rashid and his son Haroun.'. 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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