LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE
Author: Rushdie, Salman

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Random
Pages: 240
Price ( Hardback ): $25.00
Publication Date: November 16, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-679-46336-8
Category: Fiction

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Rushdie’s 11th novel is a sequel to his charming 1990 fable Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written—as was its predecessor—for one of its author’s two sons.

Visions of Kipling and J.M. Barrie may swim through readers’ heads as we ...

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