- Hardcover
- 636
- Joseph Anton A Memoir
- Salman Rushdie
- English
- 24 August 2019
- 9780812992786
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Read & Download Á eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ß Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie ß 7 review characters Ý Joseph Anton A Memoir Eech 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 Compelling provocative and moving Joseph Anton is a book of exceptional frankness honesty and vital importance Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every da It took a commitment to finish this book but I was pleased to have done it Rushdie s manner is sometimes arrogant and seemingly self involved but he is wonderfully ta
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Read & Download Á eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ß Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie ß 7 review characters Ý Joseph Anton A Memoir Die 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 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 remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the crucial battle for freedom of sp I couldn t get through The Satanic Verses I found it unreadable in spite of my immense curiosity for the book But I picked up this book with great interest to see w
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Read & Download Á eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ß Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie ß 7 review characters Ý Joseph Anton A Memoir 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 uran” 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 Rush I m going to review this book without actually talking about it though I don t think it really matters I read a lot though I also write a lot I write short storie