LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE

Salman Rushdie. Sir Salman Rushdie. First we need to take a few minutes and actually sit here and digest that name. Only then can we move to the point that we originally wanted to discuss. After winning the Booker of Bookers with his magical tale, Midnight’s Children, Sir Salman Rushdie proved that he was one of the finest writers to have ever hit the scene. Even as his fans wait for the exalted hour when Rushdie will be conferred the Nobel Prize for Literature, the man himself keep doling out words that have given literature an altogether new definition.
And after his last Enchantress of Florence, which got him his regular long list to the Booker again, Salman Rushdie is back with a phantasmagorical tale of a poor boy who has to travel through the lands of fairies and fantasy to save his ailing father. Luka and the Fire of Life is once again an example of a vintage Rushdie, who effortlessly crams in his magic realism cache into tales of exuberance and exhilaration.
Luka and the Fire of Life is actually Salman Rushdie’s birthday gift to his daughter, much like Haroun and the Sea of Stories was dedicated to his son on his birthday. Starting with the same essence of initialized poetry like it did in Haroun, Rushdie offers a magical escape into the fantastic.
For Salman Rushdie fans, this book is another feather in his cap. And for people who have still not tested the Rushdie waters, this is another example of an easy inroad into the sublime world of the surreal that he creates.
If for nothing else, go to www.uread.com or an online bookstore and find this book for its sheer poetry in prose. Salman Rushdie does not get any better.

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