Joseph Anton

A Memoir

Recommended by Gabriel Coarna, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #54 in Censorship

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On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he 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."

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Gabriel Coarna I read "Joseph Anton" as soon as I found out that Salman Rushdie had written a memoir of his years in hiding following the fatwa. (Source)


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