Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Rashid Khalifa, a storyteller in a sad city, loses his gift the day his wife leaves him, and his son Haroun sets out to find the cause. The search takes the boy to a second moon, where an ocean of stories is being poisoned by the ruler of a land of permanent night. Censorship fought with wonder, written by an author in hiding.
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- reworks ↑ One Thousand and One Nights
- influenced by ↑ The Tin Drum
- alludes to ↑ The Conference of the Birds
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