Joseph Anton : a memoir

607 Pages·2012·2.89 MB·English

by  Rushdie

ALSO BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
FICTION
Grimus
Midnight’s Children
Shame
The Satanic Verses
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
East, West
The Moor’s Last Sigh
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fury
Shalimar the Clown
The Enchantress of Florence
Luka and the Fire of Life
NONFICTION
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002
PLAYS
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham)
Midnight’s Children (with Tim Supple and Simon Reade)
SCREENPLAY
Midnight’s Children
ANTHOLOGIES
ANTHOLOGIES
Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947–1997 (coeditor)
Best American Short Stories 2008 (coeditor)

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To my children
Zafar and Milan
and their mothers
Clarissa and Elizabeth
and to everyone
who helped
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.
—W S ,
ILLIAM HAKESPEARE
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