HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES

 HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES by Salman Rushdie

''What's the use of stories that aren't even true?''

Haroun is the son of a famous storyteller, Rashid who's power to speak is lost when his wife runs away. He is invited to speak at a gathering but whenever he begins to speak only 'ark' is coming out. They(Rashid and Haroun) stay at the Dull lake and Rashid has to tell stories tomorrow morning. As Rashid and Haroun exchange rooms Hauron meets Iff the water genie. Iff explains that Rashid gets his power to tell stories from the Ocean of Streams of stories itself and he has come here to close the connection. Haroun goes to Kahani(earth's moon) meets Butt the hoopoe, Mali the floating gardener, Bagha and Goopy and much more. He learns about Khattam shud the enemy of stories even speech itself. The whole of Gup city along with Haroun and Rashid(who joins in later) are going to war against the Chupwalas to save Batcheat(a princess who is kidnapped)and the Ocean.

At first, I thought that this book would be boring but it prove me wrong.                                                      

 This book was really entertaining. It talks about how graceful darkness and silence could be. It is not about good and evil, light and dark and all those stuff. I would really recommend this book to people who like fantasy and humour.

 I found on the web that Salman Rushdie wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories as a short novel for his son Zafar, then aged eleven. It was Rushdie’s first book after he had to hide because of a fatwa call for his death.