His education continued in England at the Rugby School and later at King's College, Cambridge. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONīorn on June 19, 1947, into a middle-class Muslim family in Bombay, India, Rushdie attended the Cathedral Boys' High School. While Haroun and the Sea of Stories is not among Rushdie's most well-known books, it is nevertheless viewed as an important piece of his canon as well as an engaging work of children's fiction. While the story is fraught with overt literary themes, it is nonetheless a fable that simultaneously presents a tender vision of a father-son bond and a compelling adolescent quest to repair a rift in that relationship. His only work for young readers, Haroun and the Sea of Stories has been viewed by critics as Rushdie's rebuttal of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's attempts to silence his examination of the Islamic religion in The Satanic Verses. After being forced into hiding to escape the ire of Islamic fundamentalists due to the controversy surrounding his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, Rushdie penned a fairy tale for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), as both a bedtime story for his son and as an allegorical response to his situation.

Rushdie is among the best-known representatives of postcolonial fiction in modern British literature. The following entry presents commentary on Rushdie's young adult novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) through 2006. He currently lives in New York City.(Full name Ahmed Salman Rushdie) Indian-born English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, playwright, travel writer, and author of young adult novels. Rushdie has been married four times and has two sons. Haroun and the Sea of Stories was written so that Rushdie could explain the situation to his first son, born in 1979. The fatwa persists to this day in some regards, as Iran neither actively supports nor discourages individuals from attempting to murder Rushdie. British police placed Rushdie and his family under police protection for several years.

The book was banned in 13 countries, and the following year, the spiritual leader of Iran issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's execution.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), created a major scandal, as many Muslims worldwide took offense to Rushdie's irreverent portrayal of Muhammad. His first novel, Grimus (1975), was mostly ignored, but his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981) won the 1981 Booker Prize and was awarded several other prizes over the next 30 years. He worked briefly in Pakistan as a television writer before moving to England to work as a copywriter. Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, to a Muslim family of Kashmiri descent.

Haroun and the sea