by Salman Rushdie · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439725855
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«Joseph Anton» is Salman Rushdie's autobiography, published by Mondadori in hardcover (688 pages, in Spanish).
Rushdie tells his own story from February 14, 1989, when Ayatollah Khomeini condemned him to death for the publication of «Los versos satánicos». For more than nine years he lived in hiding under the alias Joseph Anton, with armed police protection, and recounts life under constant threat, his relationship with his protectors and his fight to regain freedom of expression.
Translation by Carlos Milla Soler. The work was a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2012 and the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2013.
Aimed at readers interested in freedom of expression, censorship and biographies of twentieth-century writers.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
