![]() ![]() He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov- Joseph Anton. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. 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. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran." ![]() ![]() For the first time he heard the word fatwa. 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. San Francisco Chronicle - Newsweek/The Daily Beast - The Seattle Times - The Economist - Kansas City Star - BookPage Description NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ![]()
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