![]() ![]() Rushdie combined the names of two of his favorite authors Conrad and Chekhov to come up with the name Joseph Anton. The police asked him to choose an alias in order to go underground. ![]() He was under constant vigilance by a team of armed police. ![]() Joseph Anton: A Memoir is a frank, brutal, moving, provocative, and honest account of Rushdie’s life after this fatwa. And thus began an extraordinary tale of a world renowned author who was forced to go underground for fear that he would be assassinated. Rushdie had never heard of the word fatwa and he was unaware of what was going to happen to him. His crime was that his book was accused of being against Islam and the Quran. On 14th February 1989, a BBC journalist informed Rushdie that a fatwa has been issued against him by the spiritual and political leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini. Very soon Rushdie had to face the repercussions for his work such as protests by the Muslim communities in Islamabad and the UK. The Indian government banned it even before its release, but this was not the end. Salman Rushdie published his fourth novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, which soon became his most controversial work. Joseph Anton: A Memoir is a compelling account of Salman Rushdie’s life in hiding that lasted ten years, because of the fatwa issued against him. ![]()
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