Haroun and the Sea of Stories

By Salman Rushdie

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) is a novel for readers of all ages by Salman Rushdie, written after the fatwa that forced him into hiding. Haroun's father, Rashid, is a popular storyteller who loses his gift of the gab after his wife leaves him. To restore it, Haroun travels to Kahani, a hidden moon of Earth, where the Sea of Stories is being poisoned by the sinister Khattam-Shud, the enemy of all stories and of speech itself.

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