Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Softcover

Rushdie, Salman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812982606 ISBN 13: 9780812982602

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-10 Pages: 636 Language: English Publisher: Random House Trade NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYOn February 14. 1989. Valentine's Day. Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses. which was accused of being against Islam. the Prophet and the Quran. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground. moving from house to house. with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov-Joseph Anton.How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more...

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Review:

"A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

"Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book."--USA Today

"Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism."--The Wall Street Journal

"Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written."--The Independent (UK)

"A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty."--Le Point (France)

"Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus."--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book."--de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)

"One of the best memoirs you may ever read."--DNA (India)

"Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom."--The Boston Globe

Book Description:

A compelling and frank account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent literary history - Salman Rushdie and the fatwa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0812982606
• ISBN 13: 9780812982602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656