From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight''s Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

On Valentine''s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a fatwaThis is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story.

In Joseph Anton, Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize

Format Häftad Omfång 656 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2013-08-01 ISBN 9780099563440