Rushdie couldn't barter with his soul -- he didn't believe he had one to give -- but he did forfeit his name. showAuthor:true, . How does he fall in and out of love? For the first time he heard the word ‘fatwa.’. Written in the third person, like a novel, Joseph Anton has the effect of distancing its author from its subject. In Joseph Anton , Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. Condition: Fine. It is also the only work of Rushdie that I have managed to penetrate and really enjoy. The Indian Express is now on Telegram. bufferFullColor:"#454545", 636 pages. 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. }); Devoid of a sugar coating, the reader is confronted by stifling reality of living under a fatwa. . nothing like it has ever been written.” —The Independent (UK), “A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.” —Le Point (France), “Action-packed . Joseph Anton is hardly a conventional memoir. Joseph Anton is Rushdie's memoir of those years and the struggles he faced not just to stay alive, but also to have some kind of life behind the wall of protection officers who became his … chose for his cover name (and for the title) the first names of Conrad and Chekhov—appropriate, for the author seems caught in a tangled novel filled with ominous (and some cowardly) characters driven by an inscrutable fate toward a probable sanguinary climax. pathToDownloadFile:"https://www.salmanrushdie.com/wp-content/plugins/lbg-audio2-html5/audio2_html5/", Very soon Rushdie had to face the repercussions for his work such as protests by the Muslim communities in Islamabad and the UK. Available in used condition with free delivery in the US. }); Barnes & Noble • Indiebound • Powell’s • Random House, http://www.salmanrushdie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/abstract-covers-anton.jpg, http://www.salmanrushdie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rushdie-anton-audio-book-sample-random-house.mp3, http://www.salmanrushdie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rushdie-anton.ogg. showCategories:false, But, in all circumstances he maintained his literary and art taste which finally result a coinage of his name, ‘Joseph Anton.’ facebookShareDescription:"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. . Rushdie chose the name ‘Joseph Anton’ as a tribute to his two favourite writers,Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov,while his bodyguards and protection officers from Special Branch called him Joe. Just because you are successful at 15, doesn’t mean you’ll be successful at 19: Rahul Dravid, Indonesia intensifies search for crashed plane’s black boxes, House ‘will proceed’ impeachment of Donald Trump: Nancy Pelosi, China sees biggest daily COVID-19 case rise in over 5 months, Aahana Kumra: Bawri Chhori is a quirky slice-of-life film, Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, Statutory provisions on reporting (sexual offenses), This website follows the DNPA’s code of conduct. volumeOffColor:"#454545", showPlaylistOnInit:false, After receiving death threats Salman Rushdie used the alias Joseph Anton, this is the story of how his life changed. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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