To cross a frontier is to be transformed….The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we can??t avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the world??s harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontier??s windowless halls, we see things as they […]
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka??s storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through […]
Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses […]
Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombays claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie–less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdies […]