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On february 14, 1989, salman rushdies life was forever changed when he learned he had been sentenced to death by ayatollah khomeini for his novel the satanic verses. Joseph anton a memoir by salman rushdie author sam dastor narrator. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder. Salman rushdie is known for his fiction shame, the moors last sigh and others, but it was the satanic verses which forced him into hiding and police protection. Sam dastor the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of. He takes us inside that whale in his new memoir, joseph anton, about living in. Under the threat of death, salman rushdie has written the sentences of his life in his longawaited memoir joseph anton, argues nicholas shakespeare. One of the most celebrated writers of our time, salman rushdie, a member of the american academy of arts and letters, became the target of a fatwa, issued by the ayatollah ruhollah khomeini of iran in.
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