Joseph Anton

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing . In 2008 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 was knighted for his services to literature. Klappentext For over a decade! Salman Rushdie lived with a death sentence to his name. He dwelt in a world of security guards and armoured cars! of aliases and code names. In JOSEPH ANTON! Rushdie tells the tale behind the infamous fatwa.This is the story of one of the most crucial battles for freedom of speech in recent history! as well as an honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. Zusammenfassung From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a fatwa. This is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story. In Joseph Anton , Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Salman Rushdie
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780099563440
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956344-0
• Seiten: 656
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; Biographien (div.), Rushdie, Salman, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Memoirs, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989