Joseph Anton : a memoir
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Published
New York : Random House, 2012.
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Book
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636 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie 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. Rushdie was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and various 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, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the 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.This book is important because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rushdie, S. (2012). Joseph Anton: a memoir . Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman. 2012. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir Random House, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir Random House, 2012.
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