Joseph Anton A Memoir

A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie s eye is a camera lens firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus. Instead it is the world that it photographs a world temporarily gone mad that shifts, blurs, sharpens and changes with a dizzying swiftness. Los Angeles Review of Books
 
Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between [moments] of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing at all costs any curtailment on a writer s freedom to say what he or she wants. The Boston Globe

A gripping, firsthand account of an important battle for artistic freedom. Los Angeles Times

Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie s ability as a stylist and storyteller. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism. The Wall Street Journal

Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written. The Independent (UK)

A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty. Le Point (France)

Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book. de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)

One of the best memoirs you may ever read. DNA (India)