haroun and the sea of stories

Salman Rushdie was born 1947 in Bombay, India. He lived in England since 1961 where he attended a Rugby School. Later he received his MA from King’s College, Cambridge. He worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and as an actor.

Salman Rushdie wrote his first novel in 1975 (Grimus), his second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981) received the Booker prize. Later he was also awarded the Booker of Bookers’ and received numerous other prizes. Rushdie went into hiding in 1989 after the Ayatollah Chomeni called the Fatwa on him for his alleged hypocrisy in The Satanic Verses (1988). He apologized to the faith of Islam in his essay “In Good Faith”. In 1998 Iran ended the Fatwa, but Rushdie has still to fear for his life, because other groups have promised huge rewards for his death. Salman Rushdie now lives in New York. He is Honorary Professor in the Humanities at

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a fantastic book. It incorporates allegories, metaphors, allusions and word play on many different levels. It is Rushdie’s first novel after he was sentenced to death by the Iranian government and can be read as an allegory of suppression and mindless censorship: Khattam-Shud (meaning “totally finished”, “done with”), the Ruler of the Silent Land has made silence to be the highest religious goal.

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His latest book is called Fury (2001).

All the names in the novel have a meaning, often more than one. Haroun al-Rashid, the famous caliph of Baghdad from the Arabian Nights lends Haroun and his father Rashid his name (Rashid also being a near anagram to Rushdie). But the whole syntax and word flow is “Hindi-flavored” and introduces Western readers to the speech patterns of South Asia. A convenient glossary provid

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