Joseph Anton Author:Salman Rushdie On 14 February 1989, Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini, guilty of having written The Satanic Verses, a book "against Islam". In this memoir he tells the story of the nine years that followed, describing his life as a writer forced underground, moving from house to house, always with an armed polic... more »e protection team, struggling to be free of the fatwa and living under another name -- Joseph Anton.
How does a man live with the constant threat of murder? How does he continue to work when deprived of his freedom? How does he sustain friendships, or fall in and out of love? How does he fight back? For over a decade, Salman Rushdie dwelt in a world of secrecy and disguise, a world of security guards and armoured cars, of aliases and code names.
In Joseph Anton, Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.« less