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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Pakistani protesters burn an effigy of British author Salman Rushdie at rally to condemn the British government for awarding a knighthood to him in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, June 22, 2007. About 2,000 Pakistanis rallied across Pakistan against Rushdie's knighthood, calling for the author to be killed and for a boycott of trade with Britain. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
