![]() ![]() Rushdie uses the memoir to pay back a heavily owed debt to loyal friends who protected him, including writers, agents, his Norwegian publisher William Nygaard who survived an assassination attempt, and the loyal police team with whom he lived for many years. ![]() In the early days of the crisis revealed in Joseph Anton - an alias he chose for police to identify him based on the names of his favourite authors - Rushdie led a bizarre existence in which he found himself defending his right to free speech to government leaders one minute and hiding for hours in his bathroom to avoid being seen by the cleaning lady the next. 14, 1989, for writing the book The Satanic Verses. ![]() In the prologue, the author describes how it felt when he first heard that he had been sentenced to death by a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader of Iran, on Feb. ![]() It’s an eerie echo of events recounted in Joseph Anton. Hassan Sane’i, head of the Khordad Foundation, added $500,000 to a bounty, now totalling $3.3 million, on Rushdie’s life Monday in response to a U.S.-made film Innocence of Muslims, which has incited violence across the Muslim world. Salman Rushdie’s memoir Joseph Anton, an account of his decade-long fight to have a 1989 fatwa against his life lifted, arrives in stores Tuesday, the day after a renewed call for the author’s death reveals his battle is far from over. ![]()
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