Joseph Anton PB

A könyv azokról az évekről mesél, amikor az írónak a rá kimondott fatva miatt bujkálnia kellett. A címben szereplő név is a saját, a hatóságok kérésére kreált álneve, melyet két kedvenc írója után választott magának. Így lett Joseph (Joseph Conrad után)
és Anton (Csehov után).



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 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. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers
he loved and combinations of their names