Haroun and Rashid board a mail bus bound for the Valley of K. When Rashid attempts to tell his stories, however, no words come out, and the politicos get very mad.
Haroun finds it difficult to concentrate on schoolwork and so his father decides to take him on a storytelling job he is performing for some politicos in the Land of G and the Valley of K. In anger, Haroun assails his father for the uselessness of his stories. This neighbor had often been critical of Haroun's father, Rashid, because he did not understand the usefulness of stories. One day, Haroun arrives home from school to learn that his mother has run off with his upstairs neighbor. The novel opens in the sad city in the country of Alifbay, where Haroun Khalifa lives with his father, a famous storyteller, and his mother.
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