Haroun and The Sea Of StoriesIn a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name, lived a professional storyteller named Rashid and his son Haroun.' Thus begins Rushdie's magical and delightful book, which is comprised of hundreds of stories, funny and sad, all of them juggled at once, together with sorcery and love, wicked uncles and fat aunts, and mustachioed gangsters in yellow check pants. |
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Contents
The Shah of Blah | |
The Mail Coach | |
The Dull Lake | |
An Iff and a Butt | |
About Guppees and Chupwalas | |
The Spys Story | |
Into the Twilight Strip | |
Shadow Warriors | |
The Dark Ship | |
Harouns Wish | |
Princess Batcheat | |
Was It the Walrus? | |
About the Names in this Book Follow Penguin Copyright | |
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balcony began Bezaban bird Blabbermouth Bolo’s Butt the Hoopoe can’t Chup City Chupwalas colours Complicated To Explain cried Cultmaster Cultmaster’s Dark Ship Disconnecting Tool Dull Lake Eggheads eleven minutes eyes father fellow Floating Gardener Goopy and Bagha grinning Gup City Guppees hand happy Haroun asked Haroun Khalifa Haroun thought head hissed Hoopoe’s Iff the Water Kahani Khattam-Shud Kitab Land of Chup looked Mail Coach Mali Midnight’s Children Miss Oneeta mouth moving its beak Mudra night nightshirt Ocean okay Old Zone P2C2E House Pleasure Garden Plentimaw Fishes poison Prince Bolo Princess Batcheat Processes Too Complicated Rashid Khalifa Rashid the storyteller replied Rushdie sad city Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses Sea of Stories Sengupta Shadow Warrior Shah of Blah shouted silence Snooty Buttoo Soraya speed stop Story Water Streams of Story swan-boat tell There’s thing Twilight Strip voice Walrus Water Genie What’s Wishwater you’re Zipped Lips