Joseph Anton

Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year – Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post *
Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read – Nicholas Shakespeare * Daily Telegraph *
Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. It makes you sympathise. It may even scare you. It should also make you — if you believe that freedom is essential — very, very angry. – David Aaronovitch * Times *
Frank and…more gripping than any spy story…the prose makes for powerful reading… He is a great writer who has been brave. – Margaret Drabble * Observer *
An intimate tale of fathers and sons, of the beginnings and ends of marriages, of friendships and betrayals. At the same time, Joseph Anton is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts. * New York Times Book Review *
This is tense thriller even if we know the outcome – Fiona Wilson * The Times *
Absorbing… Rushdie is compelling here – Robert Collins * Sunday Times (Culture) *
Describes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol * Sunday Telegraph (Seven) *
Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Poignant and honest * Big Issue in the North *

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 2008 Midnight’s Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor’s Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 was knighted for his services to literature.

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