Full name: Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel

Author: Salman Rushdie Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Children, Adventure Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679463368 9780679783473 0679463364 0679783474

With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 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. This book is part of the "Khalifa Brothers" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Veronica by Nicholas Christopher Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi In the Suicide Mountains by John Gardner Quin's Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe Light Boxes by Shane Jones Big Fish by Daniel Wallace Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban The Losers by David Eddings Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll The Pisces by Melissa Broder The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan