2012 · New York
by Rushdie, Salman
New York: Random House, 2012. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 636, [4]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped jacket. Signed by Rushdie on the title page. Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life, the result of a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini because of Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses. "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 (truncated)