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Mar 26, 2010 · Joseph Anton – A Memoir. On 14 February 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?
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Though the themes vary greatly between the two books, for sheer punch-you-in-the-mouth impact, Joseph Anton reminds me of Nien Cheng’s astonishing Life and Death in Shanghai. Cheng’s ordeal was more squalorous — she was tossed into a Chinese prison during Mao’s Cultural Revolution —but what she and Rushdie endured is equally beyond ...
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Sep 18, 2012 · Joseph Anton is the memoir of controversial Indian author, Salman Rushdie and concentrates on the time in his life during which he was under threat of the fatwa imposed by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini for his novel, The Satanic Verses.
Oct 1, 2012 · For starters, the ayatollah's death sentence meant choosing a new, non-Asian identity — Joseph Anton — which came from combining the first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. It...
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.
Oct 12, 2012 · Salman Rushdie invented a new self, “Joseph Anton,” as he hid from a murderous fatwa.
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Apr 19, 2013 · If you’re thinking that this disqualifies me from reviewing Rushdie’s new memoir about life under a death-penalty fatwa—the thought also occurred to me before I started the book. But writers, thank goodness, can surprise us.
