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A compelling and frank account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent literary history - Salman Rushdie and the fatwa.

On 14 February 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 to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and 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 over 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, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of 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.

It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

About The Author
Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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Publisher Jonathan Cape
Publication Year 2012
ISBN-13 9780224093972
ISBN-10 0224093975
Language English
Binding Hardcover
Number of Pages 656 Pages
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Depth 57 inch
Weight 1146 g

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Dark humour at it's best

Another masterclass from Rushdie. The twists, the turns, the spice, the humour all sprinkled in just the right quantity to take you through a breath-taking journey on those shameful and dark days of the "Fatwa". Although some may say, he is been a bit narcissistic in the treatment, I personally didn't find any overt narcissism in it. And the better thing is, he has used much easier and everyday English in this, unlike "The Midnight's Children".

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memoir or a cauldron of gawssips

surely i expected better from mr. rushdie. the knight from india has only imatured with age. all the fame has made him lose his poise. seems , in his world of magic realism, there r only two kinds of people, one who like mr. rushdie and the other who do not. and those who do not like him have faced his wrath in his latest book much like his ex wives.

but whatever be the content , he maintains his dark humour and linguistic manouvers in his writing.

i hope he had spent more time in writing than exchanging glasses with bono.

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