Luka and the Fire of Life
Salman Rushdie
A dazzling story told for the love of story by the greatest ofstorytellers gives us a novel of wisdom and pleasure for all ages, inwhich a young boy must battle his way through a dangerous world in order to save his father.<br><br>On a beautiful starry night in the city ofKahani in the land of Alifbay, a terrible thing happened:twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly andinexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rousehim. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on ajourney through The Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seeminglyimpossible and exceedingly dangerous task.<br><br>Rushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers with Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990). While Haroun was written as a gift for his first son, Luka and the Fire of Life, the story of Haroun's younger brother, is a gift for Salman's secondson on the occasion of his twelfth birthday. Lyrically crafted andfilled with frolicking wordplay, this is Salman Rushdie at his best.<br>