'The Golden House' is Salman Rushdie's failed attempt to capture America in the Trump era
Sep 07, 2017
3 minutes
The Golden House, the latest of Salman Rushdie’s twelve novels, is an ambitious attempt to capture the inception of Trump’s America through the Golden family, a wealthy father living with three grown sons, newly arrived to New York. A blend of "Godfather" and "Gatsby," with mystery surrounding his family’s origins and source of wealth, the patriarch Nero adopts as a confidante his young neighbor, René, who narrates the story like a more antic version of "Gatsby"’s Nick.
René’s drive to be a filmmaker leads to
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