The Golden House: Salman Rushdie

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A tonic addition to American—no, world!—literature . . . a Greek tragedy with Indian roots and New York coordinates.” — San Francisco Chronicle Marta Falconi (AP): Nero's Rotating Hall Unveiled in Rome by Marta Falconi, September 29, 2009, USA Today a b Donati, Silvia (2014-06-19). "Rome's Domus Aurea Needs Four-Year Restoration". ITALY Magazine . Retrieved 2019-05-14. The extensive gold leaf that gave the palace its name was not the only extravagant element of its decor: stuccoed ceilings were faced with semi-precious stones and ivory veneers, while the walls were frescoed, coordinating the decoration into different themes in each major group of rooms. [54] Pliny the Elder watched it being built and mentions it in his Naturalis Historia. [55]

One such resident is our narrator, Rene, who lives with his parents in one of the houses, and soon becomes obsessed with Nero Golden and his three sons; Petya, Apu and Dionysus (or simply ‘D’). Nero Golden has re-named his sons and carefully guards their family history and secrets. With speculation amongst his neighbours rife, gradually Rene befriends the residents of the Golden House, learns their secrets, watches their rise – and spectacular fall – and becomes involved in their lives, as they become linked with his.

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Ambitious and rewarding… Replete with allusions to literature, film, mythology and politics, the novel simultaneously channels the calamities of Greek drama and the information overload of the internet. The result is a distinctively rich epic of the immigrant experience in modern America, where no amount of money or self-abnegation can truly free a family from the sins of the past.” —Starred Publishers Weekly Review Warden, P.G. (1981). "The Domus Aurea Reconsidered". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 40 (4): 271–278. doi: 10.2307/989644. JSTOR 989644. nothing... continues happening. There is a resolution, but it's very transparent and I feel like it didn't even need telling.

Less of a structured novel and more a rambling stream of Rushdie’s consciousness, this amorphous soliloquy is rammed to the rafters with a farrago of all that ails and delights one of our greatest living authors about our modern world. main character introduces the entire neighbourhood and the Golden family. Nothing but epic foreshadowing is happening. Relatively early on in this novel, the era of Obama at the helm draw to a close, and the elections for the 45th President are on everyone’s minds, including the media. What is American culture?” This novel dares to seriously ask—often pokes fun at—and ultimately explores—no, turns inside out—this beloved cliché we and the world over cling to called the American Dream, from the viewpoint of the transplant, from the viewpoint of those ultimately in search of themselves in the whirlwind that is our lives in our culture today. Sometimes, watching him, I thought of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, a simulacrum of the human that entirely failed to express any true humanity.”Salman Rushdie has garaged the magic carpets and dived deep into 21st-century America, with its concerns about identity, guns, the 1 percent and even superheroes. Jane Henderson, Miami Herald

This is our world right now ---animated, theatrical- nutty - scary - confusing - with many people most comfortable isolating in their homes---while others are flamboyant outlandish socially active in the arts - sports -politics- and community. Love, fear, anger, hate... we live with it all. It's a sad beautiful world! The Golden House is a 2017 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel, his eleventh, is set in Mumbai and New York.How does one live amongst one’s fellow countrymen and countrywomen when you don’t know which of them is numbered against the sixty-million plus who brought the horror to power, when you can’t tell who should be counted among the ninety-million plus who shrugged and stayed home, or when your fellow Americans tell you that knowing things is elitist and that they hate all elites, ��and then all of that, education, art, music, film, becomes a reason for being loathed, and the creature out of Spiritus Mundi rises up and slouches toward Washington, D.C., to be born.