How much have you seen,eh, Thieflet ? Africa, have you seen it ? No ? Then is it truly there ? And submarines ? Huh ? Also hailstones,baseballs,pagodas ? Goldmines ? Kangaroos, Mount Fujiyama, the North Pole ? And the past, did it happen ? And the future, will it come ? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess .

Sixty three pages into the book and this was the monologue that completely caught my interest. My first Salman Rushdie book and it was a delightfully written fable. Very much a read-it-aloud book with ingredients that are well cooked and even better well served ! Rushdie creates a good fantasy world, one which is very simple and has its own logic. Logic that pertains to the polar opposites of silence & noise.

I liked that specific angle by which Rushdie looked at his alternate world. One where stories flow and noise rules the roost, silence steps in as the antagonist to well... silence the clamor. The characters are not ones that really leap out of the pages to grab your attention, that aspect is left to the world. The world in question took hold of my shirt front and hurled me headlong into Kahani . The author is a shrewd one, knowing the importance Kathakali, the folk dance form of Kerala has with story telling without the lead player opening his mouth, he has used it subtly in the tale. Mr. Rushdie hats off for that ! Oh and also for the lovely names of your characters & places too !

"Happy endings are much rarer in stories, and also in life, than most people think. You can almost say they are the exceptions, not the rule."
Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories invokes a tale of learning, to strive for the better things in life when everything seems like it's a mess. Set in a world where chatter and noise are separated from silence by a Twilight Pass, a young boy discovers that his choices determine how his life would turn out to be.

I enjoyed reading this book. With child-like wonder, a sense of awe, added with a hint of magic, and heroism Salman Rushdie made a novel excellent for sparking a person's imagination.

Priča je super. Poruke koje prenosi Salman Ruždi su nešto što je vezano za život čoveka u 21. veku, ali je to prikazano na jedan zabavan način, kroz bajku. Posebno mi se svidela rečenica koju izgovara pupavac Ali-li: "Ali-ali-li kakvog smisla ima dati nekom slobodu govora, ako onda kažeš da ne smeju da je koriste? I zar nije moć govora najveća moć koja postoji? Baš zato je treba koristiti što više!"
Međutim, trebalo mi je mnogo vremena da pročitam ovu knjigu. Priča me jednostavno nije toliko privukla da sa ne izvesnosti očekujem šta će se sledeće desiti. Zbog toga sam je ocenila sa 4/5 zvezdica. :)