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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.

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   • Publish Year: 2012

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3. www.amazon.co.uk › Joseph-Anton-Salman-Rushdie › dpJoseph Anton: A Memoir Hardcover – 18 Sept. 2012 - Amazon.co.uk

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   Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Hardcover – 18 Sept. 2012. 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.

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   Sep 10, 2013 · 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.

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6. www.salmanrushdie.com › joseph-anton-a-memoirJoseph Anton - A Memoir - Salman Rushdie

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   Mar 26, 2010 · Rushdie's account of his life under a fatwa for writing The Satanic Verses, a novel accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. He reveals his struggles, fears, loves, and triumphs in this remarkable memoir of freedom of speech.

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   Joseph Anton is a gargantuan memoir that reads like a novel. There are goodies and baddies, and the final prize is the most coveted one of all: freedom of speech. But this structure of extremes isn't the only novelistic flourish.

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   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...

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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 was Joseph Anton?

   • Joseph Anton was the alias that Salman Rushdie chose (a combination taken from Conrad and Chekhov) when he was in hiding, after being 'sentenced to death' after publication of "The Satanic Verses". On a sunny morning in London in 1989, a few months after the book had been published, a call from a BBC reporter changed his life.

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   • “ Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year.

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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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   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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   What is the main theme of Rushdie's 'Joseph Anton'?

   • It also includes the story of the break-up of his relationship with his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, and the acrimonious nature of their split, and his third and fourth marriages (and break-ups) to Elizabeth West and Padma Lakshmi. Rushdie writes about his period living as "Joseph Anton" in the third rather than the first person.

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    Sep 18, 2012 · In this memoir he tells the story of the nine years that followed, describing his life as a writer forced underground, moving from house to house, always with an armed police protection team, struggling to be free of the fatwa and living under another name - Joseph Anton.