Joseph Anton

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame , The Satanic Verses , Quichotte and Victory City . His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. 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 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 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.

Commentaire

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780099563440
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956344-0
• Pages: 656
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Thème: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, 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