'Joseph Anton: A Memoir' by Salman Rushdie - Review
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie A Review When The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, it gained immediate attention –not for the reasons now known – but rather for its quality of prose. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in that year (losing out to Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda), and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. Many considered it a far superior novel to Midnight’s Children, which had won the Booker in 1981. There was some uproar from the Muslim community in 1988, but it wasn’t until a few months into the following year, (14 February 1989, to be precise, and a date Rushdie will never forget) that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued his now famous fatwā calling for Rushdie's death. The life that Salman Rushdie lived under the height of the fatwā has long remained secret. He received state protection – something not all quarters of ...