Editore: Random House Audio, UNITED STATES, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
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Editore: Random House Audio, UNITED STATES, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
AUDIO CD. Condizione: Good. 22 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. We will polish the AUDIO CDs for smooth listening. You will receive a reliable set. Enjoy this presentable AUDIO CD performance.
Editore: Brand: Random House Audio, 2023
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Audio Book (CD). Condizione: Good. Unabridged. On February 14, 1989, Valentines 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, which was accused of being against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov-Joseph Anton.How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of 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.It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.Includes a prologue read by the Author.Praise for Salman RushdieIn Salman Rushdie . . . India has produced a glittering novelist-one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.-The New YorkerSalman Rushdie has earned the right to be called one of our great storytellers.-The ObserverOur most exhilaratingly inventive prose stylist, a writer of breathtaking originality.-Financial Timese prose stylist, a writer of breathtaking originality.-Financial Times.
Editore: Random House Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Editore: Random House Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Editore: Random House Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: new. New.
Editore: Random House Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: Big Bill's Books, Wimberley, TX, U.S.A.
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Editore: Random House, 2012
ISBN 10: 0449807819 ISBN 13: 9780449807811
Da: Pearlydewdrops, Streat, Regno Unito
Audio CD. Condizione: Acceptable. Acceptable - CDs are all present, however the box is damaged and tape has been used to keep together Shipped from the UK within 2 business days of order being placed.