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Ladataan... Joseph Anton (vuoden 2012 painos)– tekijä: Salman Rushdie (Tekijä)
Teoksen tarkat tiedotJoseph Anton : muistelmat (tekijä: Salman Rushdie)
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Self-regarding, self serving, gossipy and delicious. I can even forgive the name dropping and writing about himself in the third person, because he's just bloody good. And funny. (  ) asxz | Mar 13, 2019 |  Only good enough to make me want to read his fiction. As a person, Rushdie seems unlikable enough, but if this hadn’t been an audiobook, there’s no way I would have gotten through it. (  ) jscape2000 | Feb 27, 2019 | Niets dan respect voor een man/auteur als Rushdie en hoe hij de fatwa overleefde...Toch had ik wat moeite om dit veel te lang aanslepende dagboek te doorworstelen, het leek me voor de schrijver noodzakelijker om het te schrijven dan voor de lezer om het te lezen... (  ) Mr.Prikkebeen | Aug 30, 2018 | I have only read one book by Rushdie, thus far - The Enchantress of Florence. I loved that book with all it's flaws. Rushdie can be a rambling writer. The same can be said about this one. Sure it needed to be edited better. The worst part of the book is the third person affectation. But it was anything but boring. I finished this book in less than a week. Whatever it's flaws, he is a compelling and engrossing writer. True, I could have done with wit less information about his marital woes. Sure, sometimes it reads like a gossip column in what Rushdie likes to call the Daily Insult. But the name dropping anecdotes do provide insight into how different people react in difficult situations; how the world divides between those with courage and heart and those who are willing to go along out of cowardice or coldness. Rushdie's detailed story about his personal experiences gives insight into and a voice to the lives of millions who across time and space have been at the wrong end of totalitarian hatreds. Rushdie is the first to admit that money and fame allowed him far more comforts than other victims. No one can deny he has the right to defend himself against his critics. Yet he is honest enough to expose his own flaws and let his readers judge for themselves who Rushdie really is: a flawed but generous man with a big heart and a matching ego, caught up in an undeserved nightmare caused by the evil thoughts of diseased minds -- a nightmare that unwittingly made him the canary in the coal mine. ( )1  aront | Jul 25, 2017 | Loved the first third of the book which was a gripping memoir, but lost interest as it became an account of the politics of the story. ( ) Eye_Gee | May 8, 2017 |
 Mr. Rushdie has written a memoir that chronicles those years in hiding — a memoir, coming after several disappointing novels, that reminds us of his fecund gift for language and his talent for explicating the psychological complexities of family and identity. Although this volume can be long-winded and self-important at times, it is also a harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career, from the collision of the private and the political in today’s interconnected world to the permeable boundaries between life and art, reality and the imagination.
On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on working? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. What happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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