Moon Kahani

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Moon Kahani is a fantastical, story-filled moon in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," where the world’s tales originate and are protected.

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Moon Kahani canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
fictional moon
setting in a novel
accessedBy Pegasos II
surface form: Walrus’s P2C2E machine
appearsInWork Haroun and the Sea of Stories
associatedWithTheme censorship
political allegory
power of stories
centralThemeIn Haroun and the Sea of Stories
contains Gup City
surface form: Chup City

Gup City
Ocean of the Streams of Story
P2C2E House
Sea of Stories
createdBy Salman Rushdie
firstPublicationAppearanceYear 1990
genreOfWorkAppearedIn children’s literature
fantasy literature
governedBy Guppees
hasCharacteristic fantastical
story-filled
hasEtymology name derived from the Urdu word “kahani” meaning “story”
hasFunction protector of stories
repository of stories
source of the world’s stories
hasRegion Chup
Gup
Twilight Strip
hasSide dark side
light side
inhabitedBy Chupwalas
Guppees
Pages of the Book
Plentimaw Fishes
languageOfOriginalWork English
locatedInFictionalUniverse universe of Haroun and the Sea of Stories
medium novel
narrativeRole primary setting for Haroun’s adventure
orbits Earth
surface form: Earth (in the fictional setting)
protectedBy Guppees
storytellers
symbolizes freedom of speech
imagination
storytelling
threatenedBy Khattam-Shud
pollution of the Sea of Stories
travelMethodTo mechanical bird Butt the Hoopoe

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