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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Bob Geldof, (centre left) and Salman Rushdie (centre) on the VIP balcony during Rock band U2, who collected the NME Premier Award for God Like Genius, perform the openening numbers from their latest album "All That You Can't Leave Behind" at the Astoria, London. * Tonight is a warm up concert for selected fan club members only, before the band's world tour begins in Miami next month.
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
