Haroun And the Sea of Stories (Penguin Drop Caps) - Softcover

"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

Vowing to return to his father--the city storyteller--his lost gift of speech, Haroun begins a quest that introduces him to a mad bus driver, the Shadow Warriors, and the land of darkness