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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A Pakistani protester holds a placard which reads 'Salman Rushdie deserves hanging', at a rally to condemn the British government for awarding a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, June 29, 2007. British's announcement of the award to Rushdie has drawn condemnation in several Asian countries from Muslims who view his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses", as blasphemous. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
