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Violence
Barely any
Fantasy peril; some political violence in an absurdist key; nothing disturbing
Language
Barely any
Clean literary prose; accessible to younger readers
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The gentle weight of a world without stories and what is lost when silence wins
What this book is about
After his father—a professional storyteller—suddenly loses his gift for stories, Haroun travels to the Sea of Stories to restore it, in a world of absurdist politics, mechanical birds, and a villain who wants to silence all stories. Salman Rushdie's fable for children and adults was written for his own son and is a lighter, more playful Rushdie than his other work.
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