चला, जादूच्या नगरीत...

छानसं पुस्तक. जादुई नगरीतलं. सलमान रश्दींनी लिहिलेलं. आता सलमान रश्दी हा माणूस कसा आहे...तो काय बोलतो आणि किती लग्न करतो ह्या बाबी अलाहिदा.

त्यांचे लिखाण...त्यांची साहित्यकृती...? अप्रतिम! शब्दच नाहीत काही! अगदी 'कसं सुचतं बुवा ह्यांना?!' असा प्रश्न सारखा सारखा डोक्यातून बाहेर उडी मारावा!

त्या पुस्तकावर मी काही लिहिणं म्हणजे लहान तोंडी मोठा घास वाटतंय मला. म्हणून... पुस्तकाच्या वेष्टणाच्या आतील बाजूवर लिहिलेलं छोटंसं परिक्षण....

Luka and the Fire of Life

On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task.

With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Raushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables, and it proved to be one of his most popular books with readers of all ages. While Haroun was written as a gift for his first son, Luka and the Fire of Life, the story of Horoun's younger brother, is a gift for his second son on his twelfth birthday. Lyrical, rich with word-play, and with the narrative tension of the classic quest stories, this is Salman Rushdie at his very best.

आवडेल का मित्रमैत्रिणींनो, मखमली गालिच्यावर बसून, पुन्हां त्या जादुई नगरीतून मस्त सैर करायला?
जादू, साहस, धाडस आणि पितृप्रेम!
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