JOSEPH ANTON |
Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > Personal Memoirs
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Author:
RUSHDIE, SALMAN
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 10:
0812992784
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ISBN 13:
9780812992786
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Price:
USD 30.00
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Publication Year:
2012
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Book Description
On 14 February 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 Rushdie's extraordinary memoir of how a writer was forced underground.