The golden house : a novel / Salman Rushdie.
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, reinventing themselves as emperors living in a lavish house 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, even as Nero Golden continues to raise huge buildings carrying his name in gold letters. The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René 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 former model, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work that could ruin Nero Golden forever.
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- ISBN: 9780735273566 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 380 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2017]
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Subject: | Billionaires > Fiction. Immigrants > Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N. Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Satirical literature. |
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