Joseph Anton

FE/FP As new hardcover in similar dust jacket. On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie 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." Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the crucial battle for freedom of speech. 636 pages.