- Published: 2 September 2013
- ISBN: 9780099563440
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $39.99
Joseph Anton
A Memoir
- Published: 2 September 2013
- ISBN: 9780099563440
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $39.99
Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read
Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph
Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. It makes you sympathise. It may even scare you. It should also make you — if you believe that freedom is essential — very, very angry.
David Aaronovitch, Times
Frank and…more gripping than any spy story…the prose makes for powerful reading... He is a great writer who has been brave.
Margaret Drabble, Observer
An intimate tale of fathers and sons, of the beginnings and ends of marriages, of friendships and betrayals. At the same time, Joseph Anton is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts.
New York Times Book Review
This is tense thriller even if we know the outcome
Fiona Wilson, The Times
Absorbing… Rushdie is compelling here
Robert Collins, Sunday Times (Culture)
Describes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol
Sunday Telegraph (Seven)
Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Poignant and honest
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