The Golden House

Resumen del libro

When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, Rene, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject.

Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work. Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair. In a new world order of alternative truths, Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies.

A brilliant, heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world's greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Salman Rushdie x{0026}lt;/B (Bombay, 1947), es autor de numerosos libros, de entre los que destacan x{0026}lt;I Hijos de la medianoche x{0026}lt;/I -que ganó el premio Booker en 1981, el Booker de los Booker en 1993 y, en 2008, el Mejor de los Booker -, x{0026}lt;I Los versos satánicosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El último suspiro del morox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Joseph Anton x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Quijotex{0026}lt;/I . Ha sido galardonado con el Grinzane Cavour y el Premio Nacional de las Artes de Estados Unidos, además de otros muchos premios. En 2007, Salman Rushdie fue nombrado Caballero del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y Commandeur dans lx{0026} x02019;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, y abanderado en la lucha por la libertad de expresión, en 2022 sobrevivió a un ataque sufrido mientras dictaba una conferencia en el estado de Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P