Joseph Anton : a memoir / Salman Rushdie.

Author: Rushdie, Salman.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.

ISBN: 9780812992786 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0812992784 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780679643883 (ebk.)
0679643885 (ebk.)

Description: xii, 636 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Rushdie, Salman.
Authors, English 20th century Biography.
Islam and literature History 20th century.
Freedom of the press History 20th century.
Censorship History 20th century.

Contents: The first blackbird -- A Faustian contract in reverse -- "Manuscripts don't burn" -- Year zero -- The trap of wanting to be loved -- "Been down so long it looks like up to me" -- Why it's impossible to photograph the Pampas -- A truckload of dung -- Mr. Morning and Mr. Afternoon -- His millenariian illusion -- At the Halcyon Hotel.

Summary: "On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word 'fatwa.' His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.' So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team ... In this remarkable memoir, Rushdie tells [his] story for the first time--the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech"--Dust jacket flap.