The Book Show #1262 - Salman Rushdie

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published September 25, 2012 at 3:06 PM EDT

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For nearly a decade, Salman Rushdie lived under the threat of death after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatw? because of his novel, The Satanic Verses: A Novel

. Now in his memoir, Joseph Anton
, Rushdie reveals the story of his years in hiding, what he experienced – he uses the memoir as a chance to reclaim those stolen years.

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