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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Indian police impound a vehicle before a protest against British author Salman Rushdie outside Taj Palace hotel in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 17, 2012. Rushdie will speak at a conference in India Saturday, two months after protests by Islamic activists forced him to cancel a trip to the country due to the alleged blasphemous content in his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses'. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
