by Salman Rushdie · Jonathan Cape · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224093972
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«Joseph Anton: A Memoir» is the autobiography of Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape in hardback (656 pages, in English).
On 14 February 1989 Rushdie was informed by a BBC journalist that Ayatollah Khomeini had condemned him to death for writing «Los versos satánicos»; it was the first time he heard the word fatwa. Forced to live in hiding with armed police protection, he adopted the alias Joseph Anton, taken from Conrad and Chekhov. The book recounts his nine years of seclusion, his relationship with his protectors and his struggle to regain his freedom.
It is the first edition of the book, published on 18 September 2012.
Recommended for readers interested in writers' memoirs, freedom of expression and key episodes of recent history.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
