📗 Libro en inglés LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE

Luka had already once experienced having magical powers. His father had told him much about the World of Magic, which exists in parallel to the Real World. In that World could be found the Fire of Life on top of the Mountain of Knowledge from which flows the Torrent of Words into the Lake of Wisdom out of which flows the River of Time. Luka now crosses into that World of Magic and sets out on the quest to bring the Fire of Life back to his father. The journey is of course full of bizarre happenings, obstacles and life-threatening dangers. Luckily, as in the Virtual Reality of computer games, Luka has a certain number of lives he can lose without being out of the game. Along the route Salman Rushdie introduces philosophical themes. The importance of the imagination and of story telling is of course again one of them. Another, recurring frequently, is the nature of Time. Adding to his own exuberant and kaleidoscopic creations, Rushdie plays with and joyfully combines elements of ancient folk tales and mythologies of ancient cultures ranging from Mexico through the Mediterranean and the Middle East to India and Japan, and from Scandinavia to Africa. And at the climax, when all these mythical creatures are about to put a horrible end to Luka's quest and to deny him the Fire that might save his father's life, he disarms them in a magnificent and truly Rushdiean manner, and they even help him on the perilous journey back to the Real World.