Haroun, Iff, Butt the Hoopoe, and Mali, the stories' gardener, investigate the Sea's "Old Zone" and are captured by Khattam-Shud's animated shadow, who plans to plug the Story Source at the bottom of the Sea. Thereafter Haroun and his companions join the Guppee army of "Pages" toward Chup, where they befriend Mudra, Khattam-Shud's former second-in-command. Rashid joins them here, having witnessed Batcheat's kidnapping. In the Kingdom of Gup, King Chattergy, Prince Bolo, General Kitab, and the Walrus announce their plans for war against the neighbouring kingdom of Chup, to recapture Bolo's betrothed Princess Batcheat and to stop the pollution of the Sea of Stories. In the Sea of Stories, Haroun learns the Sea is endangered by antagonist "Khattam-Shud," who represents "the end." They are then carried to the eponymous "Sea of Stories" by an artificial intelligence in the form of a hoopoe, nicknamed "Butt" after the courier. Attempting to sleep aboard Buttoo's yacht, Haroun discovers "Iff the Water Genie," assigned to detach Rashid's imagination, and demands to speak with Iff's supervisor, the Walrus, to argue against this decision. Butt," to speak for "Snooty Buttoo," another politician. With Haroun in tow, Rashid is thence conveyed to the "Valley of K" by courier "Mr. Thereafter, Rashid is hired to speak on behalf of local politicians but fails his initial assignment. It is available as an audiobook read by Rushdie.Īt the beginning of the story, protagonist Haroun Khalifa lives with his father Rashid, a famous storyteller and doctor, and his mother Soraya, until the latter is seduced by their neighbour "Mr. Many of the major characters' names allude to some aspect of speech or silence. The book is highly allusive and contains puns in multiple languages. Many elements of the story deal with the problems of censorship, an issue particularly pertinent to Rushdie because of the fatwa against him issued in 1989 by Ayatollah Khomeini. Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, from whom he was separated for some time. It presents these problems from the viewpoint of the young protagonist Haroun. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for problems existing in society in the present day and especially in the Indian subcontinent. It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so sad and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.
It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and is followed by The Satanic Verses (1988). Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel by Salman Rushdie.
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