![]() ![]() Haroun's heroic attempt to help his father overcome his despair is motivated in part by a desire to reunite his family and return balance to the sad city where he lives, "a city so ruinously sad, that it had forgotten its name" (Rushdie 15). Haroun and the Sea of Stories follows the adventures of Haroun, an eleven year old boy who must reclaim the lost gift of storytelling for his father Rashid, known as The Ocean of Notions. ![]() Rushdie, who wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories while living in hiding due to a fatwa placed upon his life by Islamic leaders who took offense to his adult novel The Satanic Verses, weaves a personal and political tale out of the bedtime stories he told his son. ![]() Salman Rushdie begins his novel with an acrostic poem for his son, Zafar: ![]()
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