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In this autobiographical book, the world-famous author describes his life after the publication of his famous The Satanic Verses.

Radical Islamists found the novel offensive - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on all believers to kill Salman Rushdie, declaring it a "Godly deed". For nine years after the fatwa, the writer was under the protection of the London police and lived in various safe houses. The name "Joseph Anton" was chosen by Rushdie in honour of two of his favourite writers: Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. The book also describes how the translators of the Satanic Verses into Japanese and Italian were killed.

Salman Rushdie is without exaggeration one of the most famous English-language writers in the world today. After the fatwa was issued, Rushdie was forced to constantly hide under assumed names, under the protection of special police units. However, this did not stop him from continuing to work, creating a series of fascinating literary works, the latest of which is this autobiographical epic about the years he lived in the shadows after Salman Rushdie was declared an enemy of the entire Islamic world.

Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for his novel Midnight's Children in 1981. And in 1993, he received the Man Booker Prize as the author of the best novel in the forty-year history of the prize.

In 2007, on the birthday of the Queen of Great Britain, Salman Rushdie was awarded a knighthood, which also caused mass protests by Islamists.

Salman Rushdie is also the president of the American PEN Centre and the president and founder of the International Parliament of Writers. The U2 song "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" was written on his words, and he played the role of himself in the famous film Bridget Jones's Diaries.