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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn 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.”   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.   How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years How does he go on working 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. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.   It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of 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.Praise for Joseph Anton  “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times   “A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post   “Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today   “Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK)   “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France)   “Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books   “Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”—de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)   “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”—DNA (India)   “Extraordinary . . . 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.”—The Boston Globe Good books to read Joseph Anton A Memoir by Salman ... Thursday : 2010-03-08 Joseph Anton A Memoir Books by Salman Rushdie. Thursday : 08-03-2010 TIME : 1:18 am On February 14 1989 Valentine s Day Salman ... Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie - The ... As that passage indicates Rushdie has chosen to tell his story in the third person: to write not about Salman Rushdie but about Joseph Anton the person who for more ... Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie Reviews ... Joseph Anton has 6809 ratings and 1100 reviews. Petra Eggs said: He didn't need the publicity he didn't need the money he knew as a highly-educated m... Joseph Anton a Memoir - The New York Times If Joseph Anton builds up a lot of reader-friendly capital in these sections it exhausts that capital rather too freely as the story continues. Joseph Anton - A Memoir - Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton A Memoir. By Dev On March 26 ... Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on ... Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Salman Rushdie: 9780812982602 ... However as I progressed through this well written memoir I slowly came to loathe Joseph Anton as an utterly self-absorbed hypocrite. Review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir - The Boston Globe Even though the price on Rushdies head was recently raised to more than $3 million by an Iranian foundation Joseph Anton is dead. Rushdie has lived in the open ... Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Walmart.com Free Shipping. Buy Joseph Anton: A Memoir at Walmart.com Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Penguin Random House About Joseph Anton. On February 14 1989 Valentines Day Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been sentenced to death by ... Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Wikipedia Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie. It was published in September 2012 by Random House.
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