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Author Rushdie, Salman.

Title Joseph Anton : a memoir / Salman Rushdie.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  PR6068.U757 Z46 2012    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 636 pages ; 25 cm
Contents First blackbird -- A Faustian contract in reverse -- "Manuscripts don't burn" -- Year zero -- Trap of wanting to be loved -- "Been down so long it looks like up to me" -- Why it's impossible to photograph the Pampas -- A truckload of dung -- Mr. Morning and Mr. Afternoon -- His millenarian illusion -- At the Halcyon Hotel.
Summary On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, 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 for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on working? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and 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. What happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding.--From publisher description.
Subject Rushdie, Salman -- Censorship.
Rushdie, Salman.
Censorship.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Authors, Indic -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors, Indic.
Great Britain.
Fatwas -- Personal narratives.
Fatwas.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Subject Protective custody -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives.
Protective custody.
Islam and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Islam and literature.
History.
Blasphemy (Islam) -- History -- 20th century.
Blasphemy (Islam)
Freedom of the press -- History -- 20th century.
Freedom of the press.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9780812992786 acid-free paper
0812992784 acid-free paper
9780679643883 ebook
0679643885 ebook