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Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie
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Description for Joseph Anton
Paperback. 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 death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 136 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
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 ... Read more
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099563440
SKU
V9780099563440
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About Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 2008 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the ... Read more
Reviews for Joseph Anton
Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year
Jonathan Yardley
Washington Post
Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. It makes you sympathise. It may even scare you. It should ... Read more
Jonathan Yardley
Washington Post
Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. It makes you sympathise. It may even scare you. It should ... Read more