Joseph Anton : A Memoir (Paperback)

from Opinionated

Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie's memoir of the years under the fatwa is remarkable for a number of reasons and one of these is - how long ago this all seems. How much the terrorist threat has moved on from individual threats to individual writers to the situation today. Mr Rushdie's fatwa almost se...

from dbsovereign

Rushdie's memoir about his time under the fatwa is a moving one. Dealing with thirteen years of hiding, he might have gone crazy. But he did not. He can seem to name drop at times (he is a famous writer after all) and perhaps still hold some grudges in residual bitterness (people did betray him a...

from arubabookwoman

Rushdie's memoir primarily covers the fatwa years. However, he includes quite a bit of information about his childhood and formative years, including his time at an English boarding school. Reading about how he got his first book published, how Midnight's Children came to be written, his writing ...

from bluepigeon

Thank you Goodreads and Random House for this giveaway!What does feta cheese have anything to do with the fatwa? You'll find out, if you read this book.This is a long book. It is all about Salman Rushdie and Joseph Anton. It is a memoir of the years the author/father/husband/lover/"infidel" lived...

from Cariola

Joseph Anton is Rushdie's memoir of the years he spent, mostly in hiding, under the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa. The fatwa, which was announced on Valentine's Day, 1989, has never been officially revoked; in 1998, the Iranian government proclaimed that it would neither support nor hinder attempts ...