11 Revelations From Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, ‘Joseph Anton’
Speed Read
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted Iran’s spiritual leader to issue a fatwa—a bounty on his head. For the next decade or so, Rushdie went into hiding. In his new memoir, Joseph Anton, which was his alias (the book is written in the third person, as if a ‘biography’ of Rushdie/Anton), the famous novelist tells the story of his years under police protection and how the threats to his life strained his marriages. From his second wife’s allegedly lying to him about a CIA plot, which caused him to mistrust her, to moving dozens of times in just months, we speed-read his absorbing book.
