Haroun and the Sea of Stories Haroun and the Sea of Stories is Salman Rushdie's gentlest book, a fairy-tale like story that continues the tradition of Orwell's "Animal Farm". The book is about the land where stories are made, Rashid who is "the Shah of Blah, with oceans of notions and the Gift of the Gab" and his son Haroun. When Rashid loses his gift, his son embarks on an quest to recover it. Interspersed in this delightful tale are some poignant moments dealing with freedom of speech and expression. The book can be read as a commentary on "The thousand and one Arabian nights", placing it as a triumph of the imagination over draconian authority, and the appeal of the tale to even the meanest among us. Yet, it is also a sobering story, the imagination does run out in the face of unrelenting pressure from the unimaginative despot. From the back cover of the penguin edit....

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