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On February 14, 1989, ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and informed that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the very first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To own written a novel called The Satanic Verses, that was accused to be "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran". So begins the extraordinary storyline of how a writer was obligated underground, moving from house to accommodate, with the continuous presence of the armed police safeguard team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he liked and combinations with their names; then it arrived to him: Conrad and Chekhov - Joseph Anton. Just how do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How exactly does he continue working? How exactly does he show up in and out of love? How exactly does despair form his thoughts and actions, how and just why will he stumble, so how exactly does he figure out how to fight back? In such a amazing memoir Rushdie explains to that storyline for the very first time; the story of 1 of the crucial battles, in our time, for liberty of talk. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he produced along with his protectors; of his have difficulty for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, web publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his liberty. It really is a publication of exceptional frankness and honesty, persuasive, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what occurred to Salman Rushdie was the first action of a theatre that continues to be unfolding somewhere in the world every day. This audiobook includes a prologue read by the writer.
