The Golden House: Salman Rushdie
Author Salman Rushdie’s new novel titled 'The Golden House' is slated to release in September 2017. The announcement was made by Penguin Random House on 7 February 2017.
The book will be published in India by Penguin Random House, which acquired the subcontinent rights from the Wylie Agency.
Rushdie’s forthcoming novel is a modern-day thriller, which tells a story of a mysteriously wealthy family from Bombay that is desperately seeking to forget the tragedy they left behind as they settled in New York City.
About Salman Rushdie
• Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
• He was born in Bombay (British India) into a Muslim family of Kashmiri descent.
• His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. It was also deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions.
• His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was the subject of a major controversy. It provoked protests from Muslims in several countries.
• In 1983, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the United Kingdom’s senior literary organisation.
• In 2008, The Times ranked him 13th on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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