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. (Full name Ahmed Salman Rushdie) Indian-born English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, playwright, travel writer, and author of young adult novels.
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