
When Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" triggered a death sentence from Iran's Ayatollah, he vanished into "Joseph Anton" - his pseudonym and memoir of nine years in hiding. What price for free expression? The book Michiko Kakutani called "a palpable sense" of living under fatwa.
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On Valentine's Day 1989, a BBC reporter asked Salman Rushdie how it felt to be sentenced to death by Ayatollah Khomeini. "It doesn't feel good," he replied simply, while thinking, "I'm a dead man." This moment marked the beginning of an extraordinary saga - a novelist forced underground for over a decade, protected by armed guards, his very existence becoming a symbol in the global conflict between religious extremism and freedom of expression. "Joseph Anton" - Rushdie's alias during hiding, combining the names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov - chronicles this astonishing journey. Despite its grave subject matter, the memoir maintains Rushdie's characteristic wit and literary flair, offering both a political thriller and a deeply personal account of a writer determined to reclaim his life and identity.
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