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Random House
November 2010
On Sale: November 16, 2010
240 pages
ISBN: 0679463364
EAN: 9780679463368
Hardcover
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With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that
have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of
our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the
magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in
the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This
breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger
brother, who must save his father from certain doom. For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has
fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To
keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must
travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of
Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures,
strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges
as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race
through peril after peril, pass through the land of the
Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka’s
fate, and that of his father, will be decided. Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as
universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of
mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders
for all ages.
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