Luka and the Fire of Life
  • Published: 1 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099421894
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $27.99

Luka and the Fire of Life

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A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

IMAGINE
you are Luka, a twelve-year-old boy who has to save the life of the storyteller father you adore.

IMAGINE
you have two loyal companions by your side: a bear called Dog who can sing and a dog called Bear who can dance.

IMAGINE
you must now embark on a journey through the Magic World to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task...


With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 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 Haroun'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.
  • Published: 1 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099421894
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Praise for Luka and the Fire of Life

Startlingly beautiful...an eloquent example of the games a fine storyteller can play

Independent on Sunday

A captivating, funny and beautifully imagined fable

Beth Jones, Sunday Telegraph

A bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places...its exuberance is inextricably linked to its profligacy with puns, rhymes, one liners and snippets of nonsense... It captures brilliantly that moment when adults enrapture children by behaving like children themselves

Alex Clark, Guardian

A playful, inventive statement to a son, a story of growing up and imminent self-awareness, a tale of magic

Susan Rice, Sunday Herald, Christmas round up

A beautiful book... It's like a bridge, built between generations, fabulous and strange and from the heart

Neil Gaiman