Joseph Anton, English edition - A Memoir. Nominiert: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 2013
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2013 |
Seiten | 656 |
Format | 13,0 x 19,8 x 4,1 cm |
Gewicht | 470 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0099563444 |
EAN | 9780099563440 |
Bestell-Nr | 09956344EA |
A frank and compelling account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent history, from the author of Midnight's Children.
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
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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