{"product_id":"joseph-anton-a-memoir","title":"Joseph Anton: a Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the international story.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How does a man live with the constant threat of murder? How does he continue to work when deprived of his freedom? How does he sustain friendships, or fall in and out of love? How does he fight back? For over a decade, Salman Rushdie dwelt in a world of secrecy and disguise, a world of security guards and armoured cars, of aliases and code names.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJoseph Anton\u003c\/i\u003e, Rushdie tells the remarkable story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Joseph Anton: a Memoir","offer_id":45588020986053,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-09-956344-0.jpg?v=1767647875","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/joseph-anton-a-memoir","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}