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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File photo dated 14/02/89 of Sir Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses", who has said he is still glad that he wrote his controversial novel The Satanic Verses in an interview coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the book.

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Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Books Comment | TrackBack | Permalink