Joseph Anton

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses , and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022. 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 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 death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade.

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Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year Jonathan Yardley Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780099563440
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956344-0
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; 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