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Joseph Anton

A Memoir

Joseph Anton( )
Author: Rushdie, Salman
Read by: Dastor, Sam
ISBN:978-0-449-80781-1
Publication Date:Sep 2012
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint:RH Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $60.00
Book Description:

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.”   So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.09 x 5.96 x 2.25 Inches
Book Weight:1.24 Pounds
Author Biography
Rushdie, Salman (Author)
Salman Rushdie was born in India on June 19, 1947. He was raised in Pakistan and educated in England. His novels include Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and The Golden House. His non-fiction works include Joseph Anton, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step across This Line. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled East, West. He has received numerous awards including the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel twice, the James Tait Black Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight's Children, and the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize.

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