Author:
Rushdie, Salman.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Random House, 2012.
Descriptionxii, 636 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:The first blackbird -- A Faustian contract in reverse -- "Manuscripts don't burn" -- Year zero -- The trap of wanting to be loved -- "Been down so long it looks like up to me" -- Why it's impossible to photograph the Pampas -- A truckload of dung -- Mr. Morning and Mr. Afternoon -- His millenarian illusion -- At the Halcyon Hotel.
Note:Presents a memoir of the author's nine years spent underground after he was sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini for his controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses," describing how his family and he continued to live while constantly in hiding and under police protection.