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Luka and the Fire of Life

Luka and the Fire of Life

FantasyChildren's Books
Pages
216
Published
2010
Language
English

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Luka Khalifa sets out to save his father, the storyteller Rashid, who has fallen into a sleep from which he cannot wake. Guided by a shape-shifting companion called Nobodaddy, Luka must travel through the World of Magic to steal the Fire of Life, crossing a landscape that behaves like the levels of a video game — with lives to lose, checkpoints to save, and dangers that escalate the deeper he goes.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousWhimsicalTense
Quest

Genres

Fantasy Children's Books Middle Grade

About the author

S
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.

Characters

Luka KhalifaProtagonist

A twelve-year-old boy racing to save his father's life.

Rashid KhalifaSupporting

Luka's father, a storyteller who has fallen into an unbreakable sleep.

NobodaddySupporting

A shape-shifting figure who accompanies Luka on his quest.

All characters in Luka and the Fire of Life