Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman RushdieSet in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as 'Gulliver's Travels', 'Alice in Wonderland', and 'The Wizard of Oz'. Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.

and win arguments

boldly intimate

so that they fail utterly to provide for or capitalize on one of our most basic human needs: our need for love

He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers

I know that his philosophy works best when it is observable and measurable

Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances and he begins to receive threatening emails: is someone trying to frame him for her death

Over more than three decades

Anubhav waited for the day that Zoya would fall for him too

And the diversity of the subjects this art has covered is boundless loving

From a physicist to a physician

Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives

two ingenious 'constructors'