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    Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir
    Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir
    Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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    Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir

    Written by Salman Rushdie

    Narrated by Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and John Freeman

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    About this audiobook

    The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSymphony Space
    Release dateOct 22, 2012
    ISBN9781467664240
    Thalia Book Club: Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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    Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Midnight’s Children (winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and The Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—and a collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published works of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton (a memoir of his life under the fatwa issued after the publication of The Satanic Verses), The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line—and co-edited the anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

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