Joseph Anton : a memoir / Salman Rushdie.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812992786
- ISBN: 0812992784
- Physical Description: xii, 636 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO RUSHDIE (Text) | 36015000711503 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 39493107300529 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 30664100260105 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 50503300284223 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 30499100457777 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | B Rushdie, Salman (Text) | 0112519378858 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Jackson County Public Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 39493107331888 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Leath Memorial Library | B RUSHDIE (Text) | 58198000728330 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | B/RUSHDIE (Text) | 33262003189344 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | B RUSHDIE Salman Ru (Text) | 50669011622850 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
