Description: "A performance that dazzles the eye as it erupts triumphantly out of the dark in a display of fireworks." --Anita Desai, The Washington Post Book World "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 "A lively, wonderfully inventive comic tale . . . His own Sea of Stories from which he drew this entertaining and moving book continues to flow as clear and brilliant as ever." --Alison Lurie, The New York Times Book Review "Wonderful . . . A novel of tremendous charm . . . A tribute to the pleasures, and terrible powers of storytelling . . . As lively and impassioned as any of his previous novels, but this time full of love." -- Newsweek "Fantasy, adventure, and allegory in a beautiful mix . . . Salman Rushdie reappears enriched as a human being and as a writer." --Mario Vargas Llosa "Eloquent and rejuvenative . . . A testament to the magic and power of a child's belief, and to Rushdie's undaunted optimism for the future." -- Newsday "Rushdie's gifts include wit and wildness in a sharp engagement with the world's complexities." -- Los Angeles Times "Rushdie is a master of brilliant, seductive language. . . . He transforms his story into the lush, arcane fabric of myth. It is a tale of high adventure, deep sadness, and miraculous recovery--a landmark work from one of today's most important writers." -- Self "Like all good fables and fairy tales, Haroun and the Sea of Stories yields its riches on many levels. Readers will relish the wordplay and multilingual punning." -- Boston Sunday Herald "A defiantly high-spirited and chivalrous novel." -- Vanity Fair " Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a wonderful novel, timeless in the way fine literature is always timeless." --Stephen King "I enjoyed this adventure story. . . . It involves you at once and keeps you reading, and so it should, for it's from the same magic land as Sinbad , The Thousand and One Nights , The Golden Fleece ." --Doris Lessing "Full of light and magic . . . A testimony to creativity, and to the gentle strength of hope." -- The Boston Sunday Globe

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