Joseph Anton

A Memoir

Salman Rushdie

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English

Arrow
02 September 2013

Biography; Autobiography: literary; Memoirs; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict

How does a man live with the constant threat of murder? How does he continue to work when deprived of his freedom? How does he sustain friendships, or fall in and out of love? How does he fight back?

For over a decade, Salman Rushdie lived with a death sentence to his name. He dwelt in a world of secrecy and disguise, a world of security guards and armoured cars, of aliases and code names.

In Joseph Anton, Rushdie tells the tale behind the infamous fatwa. It is a remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech, but also an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

By: Salman Rushdie
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780099563440
ISBN 10: 0099563444
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 02 September 2013
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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: A Memoir

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