Luka and the Fire of Life
A Novel
Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into a 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 powe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8129-8196-4
- EAN: 9780812981964
- Produktnummer: 8442768
- Verlag: Random House LCC US
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H17.5 cm x B10.3 cm x D1.7 cm 114 g
- Gewicht: 114
Über den Autor
Salman Rushdie is the author of ten previous novels-Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and, recently, the Booker of all Bookers), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence-and one collection of short stories, East, West. He has also published three works of nonfiction-The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, and Step Across This Line-and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a former president of American PEN.
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