where dis the person delivering the monologue come from? How did he get the information about Haroun's father?
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Rushdie is among the best-known representatives of postcolonial fiction in modern British literature. After being forced into hiding to escape the ire of Islamic fundamentalists due to the controversy surrounding his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, Rushdie penned a fairy tale for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), as both a bedtime story for his son and as an allegorical response to his situation. His only work for young readers, Haroun and the Sea of Stories has been viewed by critics as Rushdie's rebuttal of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's attempts to silence his examination of the Islamic religion in The Satanic Verses. While the story is fraught with overt literary themes, it is nonetheless a fable that simultaneously presents a tender vision of a father-son bond and a compelling adolescent quest to repair a rift in that relationship. While Haroun and the Sea of Stories is not among Rushdie's most well-known books, it is nevertheless viewed as an important piece of his canon as well as an engaging work of children's fiction.