**New York Times bestseller**
A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year
One of the truly great writers of the century at the top of his
game in this uncannily timely knockout of a novel.
Sir Salman Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
It’s one of the most vivid and convincing portraits of contemporary
America I’ve read.
*Observer, Book of the Year*
[A] complex and witty fable … Rushdie has always been an impish
myth-manipulator, refusing to accept, as in this novel, that the
lives of the emperors can’t be blended with film noir, popular
culture and crime caper. On the evidence of The Golden House, he is
quite right.
*Observer*
Unruly but exuberant… Much of the success of The Golden House, in
fact, lies in its humour and in the vigour of its storytelling…
There is a glowing energy to the prose that makes this Rushdie’s
most enjoyable, mischievous and American of novels.
*Financial Times*
Intelligent and darkly funny...with a raw political edge.
*The Times*
Rushdie writes with a Dickensian exuberance, always full of humour
as well as striking scornful, tragic notes. Often he plays the role
of satirist. His caricatures and outsize figures are full of life,
wickedness and human energy: again, as in Dickens, grounded in a
precise social and political scene.
*Evening Standard*
Rushdie’s fable is a sprightly portrait of American life from
Obama’s election to the rise of Trump.
*Mail on Sunday*
Where Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities sent up the go-go, me-me
Reagan/Bush era, Rushdie’s latest novel captures the existential
uncertainties of the anxious Obama years... A sort of Great Gatsby
for our time: everyone is implicated, no one is innocent, and no
one comes out unscathed.
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
A ravishingly well-told, deeply knowledgeable, magnificently
insightful, and righteously outraged epic which poses timeless
questions about the human condition... As Rushdie’s blazing tale
surges toward its crescendo, life, as it always has, rises
stubbornly from the ashes, as does love.
*Booklist*
Salman Rushdie is a writer of illimitable imagination and verbal
ingenuity. He grips us with wild storylines, takes us on flights of
fancy, brings us back down again, enthralled and dazed… The
terrorist attacks by Islamicists, the unplanned developments, the
bribery and corruption and multiple tragedies are gritty, real and
moving. Extreme scenes are written so beautifully I don’t think I
will ever forget them… The Golden House is an extraordinary book, a
brooding meditation on the personal and political, on ethics,
egotism, freedom and interdependence.
*i*
This is a compelling thriller with a pinch of fantasy, populated by
larger-than-life characters… This powerfully cinematic novel,
enriched by references to literature, popular culture and film, is
dense, detailed and rewarding, displaying one of our leading
novelists at the top of his game.
*Sunday Express*
For all of The Golden House’s folkloric architecture and twinkling
prose, for all its impish cartoonery and exuberant storytelling,
the novel is at its heart an unsettling portrait of the state of
humanity in the United States of 2017. It celebrates our meager
glories and exposes our flaws, particularly our inability to see
outside of our own little cocoons, whether they be constructed of
silk or some coarser material.
*New York Review of Books*
His prose is just as often a pleasure, bursting with colour and
texture… The result stands as Rushdie’s most vital book in years,
and perhaps the first protest novel of the Trump era.
*Herald*
A typically bold and all-encompassing saga.
*Irish Independent*
Rushdie is, as ever, excellent in conveying bitter, personal
anger.
*Literary Review*
Two decades after Rushdie transplanted himself to the US, one of
the major pleasures of this novel is the way in which he considers
the mores of the one per cent of the one per cent. Rushdie writes
about the Goldens’ glittering, private world with innumerable
perfect details, down to the art hanging on the walls… It will be a
long four years, but fictional protests are unlikely to be as
electric as this.
*GQ*
Hugely entertaining… Told against a backdrop of American politics
and culture between Obama’s inauguration and the 2016 presidential
election, it’s an extraordinarily powerful tale of our times.
*Saga Magazine*
[The Golden House] is a recognizably Rushdie novel in its
playfulness, its verbal jousting, its audacious bravado, its
unapologetic erudition, and its sheer, dazzling brilliance.
*Boston Globe*
The Golden House is a searing examination of modern America and the
world around it since 2008… Through the density of his
intermingling literary references, puzzles and (deliberately)
fanciful plot, comes Rushdie's true success: His great ability to
capture the devilish mood of post-crash greed, political upheaval,
and the rejection of the cosmopolitan, liberal west.
*Belfast Telegraph Morning*
Rushdie’s prose is beyond much reprieve—there are few contemporary
artists who come to mind that possess his ability to craft
sentences. In this regard, The Golden House, his latest novel, is
no exception... The Golden House is a joy to read… It’s hard to not
have fun reading writing at Rushdie’s level of craftsmanship. It’s
clever, intimidating, jocund, and electrifying.
*Chicago Review of Books*
The Golden House is not Brideshead or Gatsby – it is too rich and
too riotous. Rather it is a modern Bonfire of the Vanities, New
York seen from the inside and the outside, as only a writer of
multiple selves such as Rushdie – Indian, British, now a New Yorker
– could do.
*Guardian*
Rushdie’s story is a morality tale which unfolds with great verve
and erudition, missing no opportunity to pillory Donald Trump with
its withering contempt.
*Country & Town House*
No-one spins a yarn like Rushdie, and The Golden House’s tale of
bastard sons, mysterious men and submerged pasts is hugely
enjoyable… To say The Golden House is 'only' hugely enjoyable is a
little like writing 'only' on a cheque for £1 million.
*Skinny*
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.
*Miami Herald*
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