Archive for November 18, 2010
LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE by Salman Rushdie
What a father Salman Rushdie would make! Imagine being read to from a book that opens with “a boy named Luka who had two pets, a bear named Dog and a dog named Bear.” And then to learn that the former “was an expert dancer, able to get up onto his hind legs and perform with subtlety and grace the waltz, the polka, the rhumba, the wah-watusi, and the twist, as well as dances from nearer home, the pounding bhangra, the twirling ghoomar (for which he wore a wide mirror-worked skirt), the warrior dances known as the spaw and the thang-ta, and the peacock dance of the south.”
November 18, 2010
Tags: Around-the-World, Children's, Fantasy, Quest, Speculative (Beyond Reality), Young Adult Posted in: Award Winning Author, Speculative (Beyond Reality), World Literature 
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