Booker Prize, Booker of Bookers, Best of the Booker winner and basically the ultimate post-modern, post-colonial, post-structuralist author, Mr. Salman Rushdie talks about and reads from his new children's book, Luka and the Fire of Life during an appearance at 192 Books in November 2010.
Luka and the Fire of Life, follows one boy's journey to save his father, who has fallen into a sleep from which no one can wake him. Guided by the ironically named Nodaddy and joining forces with a dog named Bear and a bear named Dog, the rag-tag crew battle spurious villians, use their wits to traverse fathomless chasms, and better litterbug otters to obtain the fire of life, the only force that can wake Luka's father.
As Rushdie's first children's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, was inspired by his oldest son Luka and was written for Rushdie's youngest. Filled with Rushdie's trademark wordplay, Luka dives into themes of filial love, storytelling, and the meaning of mortality. (49 minutes)
