The first stories in "Thousand and One Nights" were written down in the ninth century. They’ve been added to over the years. In some ways, it’s not so much a book as a living river of stories. Some of the most recent additions come from the celebrated novelist Salman Rushdie.
Years ago, when his first son was young, Rushdie wrote "Haroun and the Magic Sea." It's full of genies and magic carpets and flying ships. More recently, he came out with a sequel of sorts, called "Luka and the Fire of Life." He wrote it because his second son insisted.