Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton

A Memoir. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 633 Seiten
ISBN 0099563444
EAN 9780099563440
Veröffentlicht August 2013
Verlag/Hersteller Random House UK Ltd
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Beschreibung

For over a decade, Salman Rushdie lived with a death sentence to his name. He dwelt in a world of security guards and armoured cars, of aliases and code names. In JOSEPH ANTON, Rushdie tells the tale behind the infamous fatwa.This is the story of one of the most crucial battles for freedom of speech in recent history, as well as an honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

Portrait

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 2008 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 was knighted for his services to literature.