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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
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...
Apr 19, 2013 · The “satanic verses” of the book’s title refer to an apparently real moment when Muhammad affirmed that three pagan deities were, in fact, genuine deities. Joseph Anton, unfortunately, is rather vague about why Rushdie’s addressing this subject sparked a frenzied crusade against him and his novel.
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...
By Salman Rushdie. New York: Random House, 2012. Pp. 636.1. THE ONCE-FAMOUS novelist Gore Vidal maintained that, in an age in which fiction has lost its authority, "famous novelist" no longer has meaning. "To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer," he said.
Sep 10, 2013 · Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between [moments] of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom to say what he or she wants.” — The Boston Globe “A gripping, firsthand account of an important battle for artistic freedom.”
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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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