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- Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. [ 1 ]
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. [1] Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life.
- Salman Rushdie
- 2012
Sep 20, 2012 · I’m halfway through Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of what it was like to be given a death sentence by medieval religious savages. I’m reviewing the book for next week’s magazine.
Oct 12, 2012 · Salman Rushdie invented a new self, “Joseph Anton,” as he hid from a murderous fatwa.
Oct 1, 2012 · John Powers reviews the author's memoir of his time in hiding — the result of a fatwah calling for his murder after the publication of The Satanic Verses.
Joseph Anton is Salman Rushdie’s memoir of life after hearing a fatwa that called for his death had been issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. His crime was writing The Satanic Verses, a novel. Joseph Anton is the new name he chose as he went into hiding, a combination of two of his favourite writers, Anton Chekhov and Joseph Conrad ...
Mar 26, 2010 · 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.
Sep 18, 2012 · The recent violence sparked by the film Innocence of Muslims recalls a very different controversy from more than 20 years ago: In 1988, Salman Rushdie published a novel, The Satanic Verses, that...
