Salman rushdie sea of stories5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Sengupta dislikes Haroun’s father and sometimes he launches into criticisms of Rashid, telling Haroun’s mother that Rashid has “his head stuck in the air and his feet off the ground. Sometimes Haroun likes this and sometimes he does not. Sengupta often treats Haroun as if he were her own son. Even stranger are the Senguptas, the Khalifa’s upstairs neighbors, who have no children at all. Haroun is an only child, a strange circumstance in a city where there are mostly big families. Haroun continues to ask these questions of his father all the time until one day, Haroun asks “one question too many, and then all hell broke loose.” Haroun often wonders where his father gets all these stories since “stories can’t simply come out of thin air.” His father will only say that all his stories come from the great Story Sea. His stories are fantastical, full of strange characters and dramatic situations. Rashid travels a lot because his cheery stories are in demand. ![]() “To his admirers he was Rashid the Ocean of Notions, as stuffed with cheery stories as the sea was full of glumfish but to his jealous rivals he was the Shah of Blah.” Haroun and his family live a happy life in the city, until one day, when something goes wrong. His father, Rashid, is a famous storyteller. Haroun Khalifa lives in the middle of this city with his father and mother. The city stands “by a mournful sea full of glumfish” and all the people are full of sadness and melancholy. The novel opens in the “saddest of cities” in the country of Alifbay. ![]()
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