![]() ![]() 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. The journey to, and on, the sea waters that cover a large portion of Kahani depicts an entirely different dimension of reality. Haroun is the follow-up to Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, which was deemed blasphemous by the Ayatollah (a high-ranking Iranian clergyman) at the time, who pronounced a death sentence on the author. Haroun, the child protagonist, travels from the world of apparent everyday reality (represented by planet Earth) to a Moon world called Kahani. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), created a major scandal, as many Muslims worldwide took offense to Rushdie's irreverent portrayal of Muhammad. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 book for young adults, written by Salman Rushdie. 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. ![]()
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