Repentant, Haroun quests through a fantastic realm in order to restore his father's gift for storytelling. The clocks freeze: time literally stops when the ability to narrate its passing is lost.
``What's the use of stories that aren't even true?'' Haroun demands, parroting the neighbor and thus unintentionally paralyzing Rashid's imagination. Supposedly begun as a bedtime story for Rushdie's son, Haroun concerns a supremely talented storyteller named Rashid whose wife is lured away by the same saturnine neighbor who poisons Rashid's son Haroun's thoughts.
Following the unprecedented controversy generated by The Satanic Verses, Rushdie offers as eloquent a defense of art as any Renaissance treatise.
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