


“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.
