On the surface, 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' is a lively, wonderfully inventive comic tale with an updated Arabian Nights background. Who could have believed that a world-famous spiritual leader would publicly exhort his millions of followers to murder a novelist in another country, and promise them eternal salvation should they succeed?' The only difference is that the experiences that lie behind 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' are nearly as fantastic as anything in the tale.

Salman Rushdie's remarkable new children's book belongs in this company. White, who both as child and adult was described as resembling a mouse, made the hero of 'Stuart Little' Never attains maturity, and must borrow or steal other people's children for his playmates. Many of Beatrix Potter's animals escape from claustrophobic domestic environments like that of her own respectably repressive Victorian parents. NovemAnother Dangerous Story From Salman Rushdie By ALISON LURIEĮhind many of the greatest and most joyful children's fantasies move the shadows of real and often unhappy events in theirĪuthors' lives. Another Dangerous Story From Salman Rushdie “I enjoyed this adventure story.…It involves you at once and keeps you reading, and so it should, for it’s from the same magic land as Sinbad, The Thousand and One Nights, The Golden Fleece. It’s also a work of literary genius.” -Stephen King “This is, simply put, a book for anyone who loves a good story. “Fantastical, funny, whooping through drama and comedy, good and evil, introducing creatures delightful or frightening, this joyous and tender book is a whole Arabian Nights entertainment.” -Nadine Gordimer, The Times Literary Supplement “As eloquent a defense of art as any Renaissance treatise…saturated with the hyperreal color of such classic fantasies as The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.

“Though there is darkness and silence at the center of Chup, most of Haroun and the Sea of Stories is full of comic energy and lively verbal invention.Though is sure to be enjoyed by children, it also contains amusements for adults.” -The New York Times On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. Haroun, a 12-year-old boy, sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz.

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