NEW DELHI: Salman Rushdie’s new novel will hit bookstores in September and tells the story of a wealthy family from Mumbai desperately seeking to forget the tragedy of 26/11 as they try to reinvent themselves in New York City.
“The Golden House” will be published simultaneously in India, the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, publishers Penguin Random House said.
“A modern-day thriller, it follows a mysteriously wealthy family from Bombay that is desperately seeking to forget the tragedy they left behind as they feverishly reinvent themselves in New York City.
“Copiously detailed, sumptuously inventive, brimming with all the razzle-dazzle that imbues his fiction with the lush ambience of a fable, ‘The Golden House’ is about where we were before 26/11, where we are today and how we got here,” the publishers announced today.
Meru Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief (Literary Publishing) at Penguin Random House India, who acquired Indian subcontinent rights from the Wylie Agency, says, “This is Salman Rushdie at his finest. ‘The Golden House’ is a masterclass on the confusing world we have brought upon ourselves.
“The book dissects the cultural and political vacuum in which a generation – whose frame of reference for globalisation has increasingly been coloured by conflict – must perform an intense balancing act. It is a terrific story, told at every step of the way with originality and nimble, impeccable plotting.” (AGENCIES)
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