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    Joseph Anton
    • Joseph Anton

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      On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses. So begins Rushdie's extraordinary memoir of how a writer was forced underground.

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