Joseph Anton

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight s Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.On Valentine s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This is his own account of how he was force...