Joseph Anton: life for Salman Rushdie under the fatwa
ONE good thing about that 1989 fatwa – it gave Salman Rushdie something to write about, other than naughty but nice cream slices and fallen angels. To plug his new book, Joseph Anton, Rushdie talks about life under a death sentence:
He unlocked the front door, went outside, got into the car, and was driven away. Although he did not know it then — so the moment of leaving his home did not feel unusually freighted with meaning — he would not return to that house, at 41 St. Peter’s Street, which had been his home for half a decade, until three years later, by which time it would no longer be his.
Rushdie’s memoir, Joseph Anton, which comes out next week.
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Authors Beryl Bainbridge (left) and Salman Rushdie (right) at the British Library in London today (Tuesday) to help mark the thirtieth anniversary of The Booker Prize for Fiction with an evening of readings and debate. Authors Victoria Glendinning, Salman Rushdie, Kazuso Ishiguro, Roddy Doyle, Beryl Bainbridge and Nicholas Moseley were joined by members of the public for the unique literary event. Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA.
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
