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A modern American epic place from the panorama of modern day politics and culture - a hurtling mystery that is equivalent parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities. On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from overseas shores occupies dwelling in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens", a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Community. The neighborhood is a bubble inside a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Together with his improbable name, untraceable highlight, and unmistakable whiff of risk, Nero Golden has taken along his three mature sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, an excellent recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant designer, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on 20 blocks; and D, at 22 the baby of the family, harboring an explosive magic formula even from himself. There is no mother, no wife, at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his ruler - a queen in want of the heir. Our guide to the Goldens' world is their neighbor René, an ambitious young filmmaker. Exploring a movie about the Goldens, he ingratiates himself to their home. Seduced by their mystique, he's inevitably implicated in their quarrels, their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain comic-book villain embarks after a crass presidential run that turns New York upside-down. Set from the bizarre and exuberant backdrop of current American culture and politics, The Golden House also represents Salman Rushdie's triumphant and thrilling return to realism. The result is today's epic of love and terrorism, reduction and reinvention - a powerful, timely story advised with the daring and panache that make Salman Rushdie a force of light in our dark modern.
