Luka and the fire of life
a novel
by Salman Rushdie
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When his storyteller father falls into a sleep so deep that no-one can rouse him, a twelve-year-old boy must undertake a dangerous quest through the Magic World to steal the Fire of Life and save his father.
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Fiction, Voyages and travels, Quests (Expeditions), Fathers and sons, Boys, New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_books=2011-10-22, Far-sonrelationer, Skönlitteratur, Children's fiction, Boys, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fables, Voyages and travels, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Garçons, Romans, nouvelles, Pères et fils, Voyages, Quête dans la littérature, New York Times reviewedShowing 6 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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Luka and the fire of life: a novel
2011, Random House
in English
- 2011 Random House trade paperback edition
0679783474 9780679783473
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Luka and the Fire of Life: Khalifa Brothers #2
2010, Jonathan Cape
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0224090216 9780224090216
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"Sequel to Haroun and the sea of stories" --Publisher website.
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This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom. For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka’s fate, and that of his father, will be decided.
Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages.
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