Joseph Anton
A Memoir
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.
On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a fatwa. This is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story.
In Joseph Anton, Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
Customer Reviews
Having your life ripped away for daring to write a book
If I had a fatwah hanging over my head, I would be a gibbering wreck. Not so Mr Rushdie, who writes a thoughtful and at times terrifying, almost journalistic account of losing your identity, private life and the very things which we take for granted. In this time where we are seeing book banning emerge, it is even more a morality tale.