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Byline: Adam Green
Alice in Wonderland was born out of Lewis Carroll's misery over his impossible love for a prepubescent girl. The circumstances that led Salman Rushdie to pen his own modern classic of children's literature were more harrowing still: the Ayatollah Khomeini had sentenced him to death for his novel The Satanic Verses, and the author was forced into hiding. (He has since re-emerged.) This month, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Rushdie's enchanting tale of a boy who travels to a distant land to rescue his father's storytelling powers from an evil ...