Haroun and the Sea of Stories cover Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 novel by Salman Rushdie. It is a phantasmogorgical story set in the city that forgot its name.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for several social problems existing in society today especially, in India and the Indian Subcontinent. It looks at these problems from the viewpoint of the preteen protagoinist Haroun.
Plot
The novel starts of with the elopement of Haroun's mother with the dreadful Mr Sengupta who epitomises the dull and dreary clerical drone. This event leaves Haroun's father Rashid Khalifa heartbroken, and unable to continue his profession of storytelling. Thus Haroun embarks on a mystical journey to the hidden satelite Kahani in a quest to restore his father's gift of the gab. Along the journey he meets several interesting characters including Iff the water-genie, Butt the mechanical hoopoe and saves the day for the inhabitants of Gup city.
Themes and Motifs
The novel extensively uses Hindustani to name several of its characters, and places. There are several not-so-subtle hints at criticisms of the Kashmir dispute and way of handling the situation, and a general refusal to accept hierarchial or patriarchal setups of authority.
ISBN 0613495632
External links
Amazon's page (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0613495632/102-0554131-9461759?v=glance)
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