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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.

   • Author: Salman Rushdie

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   Oct 12, 2012 · His novels are giant winged contraptions, packed to capacity, hurtling across time and space, “pitting levity against gravity,” as he describes one of his airborne protagonists at the beginning of...

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   Compelling, provocative, and moving, Joseph Anton is a book of exceptional frankness, honesty, and vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

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   Mar 26, 2010 · How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.

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   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...

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7. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 212514Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie: 9780812982602 ...

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   On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”

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   Is Joseph Anton a novel?

   • At their best, Rushdie’s imaginative machines attain lift and remain thrillingly aloft. At their worst, their centers cannot hold, and they spin into pieces. In “Joseph Anton,” which Rushdie has composed very much like a novel, both these scenarios come to pass. There are sections where the narrative soars, and more than a few in which it plummets.

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   Who wrote Joseph Anton a memoir?

   • 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.

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   Who is Joseph Anton?

   • 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. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov— Joseph Anton.

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   Why did Rushdie use a pseudonym 'Joseph Anton'?

   • Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Rushdie began to use "Joseph Anton" as a pseudonym; Rushdie chose the alias to honor the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. [ 2 ][ 3 ]

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   Did Rushdie write 'Joseph Anton' in the third person?

   • Rushdie writes about his period living as "Joseph Anton" in the third rather than the first person. The book was announced as one of the 14 titles in the longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize on 18 September 2012. [ 4 ]

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   What alias did Joseph Anton choose?

   • He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov— Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years?

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9. www.telegraph.co.uk › culture › booksJoseph Anton by Salman Rushdie: review - The Telegraph

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   Sep 20, 2012 · Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie: review. Under the threat of death, Salman Rushdie has written the sentences of his life in his long-awaited memoir Joseph Anton, argues Nicholas Shakespeare.