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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780140157376
ISBN: 0140157379
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: November 01, 1991
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration: So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just a lot of fun
I've read people say this book was or wasn't good for children... my children enjoyed it, and I thought it was a lot of fun, too. And I'm not a big Rushdie fan.
Rating: - timelessly delightful...
is it silly for an adult to thoroughly enjoy this book??
'cause i did.
and i've a feeling that a decade from now, i'd still find this surprisingly wonderful.
though the author did not belabor the fantastical world Haroun found himself embroiled in with thick imagery and endless descriptions that in some books become tiresome, there nevertheless was a peculiarly believable aspect in the realm of the Sea of Stories. what i also immensely loved about rushdie's ... Read More
Rating:  - Rushdie's Ocean of Notions keeps flowing!
What happens when Salman Rushdie gets notions from a literary ocean that contains currents like The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Wizard of Oz by Baum, Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis, and The Princess Bride by William Goldman? He turns into a story-teller recounting the tale of Haroun and his father Rashid, the Shah of Blah. When Rashid's story-telling dries up, his son Haroun travels on a fantastic journey to face the forces of Darkness that ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful
This book is amazing! It has a slow start, but once your into it there is no getting out! This book is just great! Congrats to Salman Rushdie!
Rating: - Nice Story, Well written
I have been reading Sulman Rushdie for a while and I can see what makes him so great.
His interest in giving out details makes this book and any of his other book an interesting reading.
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