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# Super Mario Bros helped Salman Rushdie cope with life in hiding
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/super-mario-bros-helped-salman-rushdie-cope-life-hiding/
- Published: 2012-10-10T16:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:51:56.000Z
- Description: As the Midnight’s Children author details in his new memoir, he escaped the stress of living under a fatwa with sojourns in the Mushroom Kingdom: In his newly released memoir Joseph Anton, which is narrated in the third person, Rushdie briefly describes how he went through a phase when he found hims
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As the *Midnight’s Children* author [details in his new memoir](http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/salman-rushdie-meets-super-mario.html?ref=killscreen.com), he escaped the stress of living under a fatwa with sojourns in the Mushroom Kingdom:

> In his newly released memoir *[Joseph Anton](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812992784/ref=nosim/themillions-20?ref=killscreen.com)*, which is narrated in the third person, Rushdie briefly describes how he went through a phase when he found himself immersed in *Super Mario Bros*, the popular Nintendo game that his son Zafar taught him to play.  
>  
> The magic console was the next best thing to a magic carpet or magic lamp, and it quickly became the “Genie-come-lately” in his fantasy arsenal. It helped that in this digital world of magical mushrooms and fire flowers, he was hunter rather than hunted. A vital role reversal, even if his wife didn’t think so.