Salman Rushdie's 660 page long memoir combines the first-names of his two favorite writers: Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekov.
The title is in keeping with what I know to be Rushdie's preoccupation--the hybridity that inheres in identity.
According to two reviews, one in the NYT and the other in the Guardian, the memoir is centered around the fracturing of self and identity that Rushdie writes he experienced when the Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa against him for blaspheming the Prophet in The Satanic Verses.
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