Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel (repost)
Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel By Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Ran dom Ho use 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0679463364 | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Ran dom Ho use 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0679463364 | EPUB | 2 MB
There’s a line in Paul Simon’s song St. Judy’s Comet, a sort of lullaby, about his reason for writing it. "If I can’t sing my boy to sleep," he sings, "it makes your famous daddy look so dumb." More than twenty years ago, when my older son Zafar said to me that I should write a book he could read, I thought about that line. Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written in 1989-90, a dark time for me, was the result. I tried to fill it with light and even to give it a happy ending. Happy endings were things I had become very interested in at the time.