Salman rushdie alias5/26/2023 ![]() At times, the book's logistical minutiae becomes too much, as it undoubtedly did living it. Forced to live anticipating assassination, demonized by enemies, he moved from one secret place to another, country cottages to farms provided by close friends, houses he'd rent until security precautions forced him to move again. ![]() Throughout his new memoir, Rushdie recounts details of his personal life in a fear-frayed reality. It was the novel that put him on the public's radar worldwide - for all the wrong reasons. The author of 11 novels, including his 1981 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children, a work of magical realism that elevated him into the ranks of masterful literary novelists such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gunter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez, Rushdie continued that stylistic magical realism in The Satanic Verses. Like the memoir's third-person point of view, the alias title lends disassociation and discomfort to all its pages, subtly and brilliantly reflecting Rushdie's state of mind during those years in hiding. Combining the given names of two of his favorite novelists, Conrad and Chekhov, he became Joseph Anton. The new memoir's title is the alias he devised when his British government protectors asked him to adopt an undercover identity. For nearly 10 years, Rushdie survived anonymously. ![]()
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