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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 one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.
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 Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 was knighted for his services to literature.
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 also make you — if you believe that freedom is essential — very, very angry.
David Aaronovitch
Times
Frank and…more gripping than any spy story…the prose makes for powerful reading... He is a great writer who has been brave.
Margaret Drabble
Observer
An intimate tale of fathers and sons, of the beginnings and ends of marriages, of friendships and betrayals. At the same time, Joseph Anton is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts.
New York Times Book Review
This is tense thriller even if we know the outcome
Fiona Wilson
The Times
Absorbing… Rushdie is compelling here
Robert Collins
Sunday Times (Culture)
Describes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol
Sunday Telegraph (Seven)
Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Poignant and honest
Big Issue in the North
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 also make you — if you believe that freedom is essential — very, very angry.
David Aaronovitch
Times
Frank and…more gripping than any spy story…the prose makes for powerful reading... He is a great writer who has been brave.
Margaret Drabble
Observer
An intimate tale of fathers and sons, of the beginnings and ends of marriages, of friendships and betrayals. At the same time, Joseph Anton is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts.
New York Times Book Review
This is tense thriller even if we know the outcome
Fiona Wilson
The Times
Absorbing… Rushdie is compelling here
Robert Collins
Sunday Times (Culture)
Describes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol
Sunday Telegraph (Seven)
Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Poignant and honest
Big Issue in the North