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Translator: Zaza Chiladze , Gia Chumburidze
Nominations: Samuel Johnson Prize
Year of publication: 2015
Number of pages: 844
ISBN: 9789941114731
Publisher: Diogenes
On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, a BBC reporter called Salman Rushdie and told him: Ayatollah Khomeini has sentenced you to death... That was when the writer heard the word "fatwa" for the first time. They accused you that your novel "Devilish Verses" is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran. It was as if he had not written a book of his own free will, but transferred the verses dictated by Satan to the paper! This is how the incredible story of how a writer became an exile in his own country begins; In order to hide from the pursuers, he was forced to constantly change his location, to be under police protection, and they even asked him to choose a pseudonym. He also remembered his favorite writers and chose Konrad and Chekhov - that's how the country got Joseph Anton. In this book, Salman Rushdie tells for the first time all the details of his difficult struggle for freedom of speech - how he lived under the same roof with the police, how he tried to get support and understanding from the government, what kind of relationship he had with special services, publishing houses, journalists, and fellow prisoners, how he managed to regain his freedom...
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