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Joseph Anton: life for Salman Rushdie under the fatwa

by | 13th, September 2012

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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Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, shown in his London study on Jan. 31,1988, is reportedly in hiding following Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini's orders to kill him. (AP Photo/Kevin Harvey)

 

 



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