Luka and the Fire of Life.

First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author's dazzling modern classic. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Dust jacket illustration by Niroot Puttapipat. Book design by Caroline Cunningham, who assisted as a literary editor during the manuscript’s development and worked with Rushdie on structure, pacing, and clarity in shaping the book’s blend of fantasy, allegory, and children’s literature. Author photograph by Alberto Conti. Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) by Salman Rushdie is a work of contemporary fantasy that combines fairy-tale narrative with philosophical reflection on mortality, courage, and storytelling. Written as a companion to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the novel follows a young protagonist on a quest to restore his father’s vitality, drawing on mythic structures, wordplay, and intertextual references. Beneath its playful surface, the book engages with serious themes of time, death, and ethical choice, while affirming the sustaining power of imagination. In blending children’s literature with literary allegory, Rushdie situates the novel within a tradition of modern fables that address universal concerns through fantasy. …