The Golden House, due out in September, portrays the life of a young film-maker amid the political upheavals of recent US history
Promising to be the “ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies”, a new novel by Salman Rushdie dramatising the last eight years of US politics has been announced by his publisher for release in September.
According to publisher Jonathan Cape, The Golden House, Rushdie’s 13th novel, follows “a young American filmmaker whose involvement with a secretive, tragedy-haunted family teaches him how to become a man”. Starting with the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2008, the book will include current and recent political and social events, including the rise of the ultra-conservative Tea Party; the Gamergate scandal, which saw the widespread online harassment of female gaming journalists framed as a debate about media ethics; the debate over identity politics; and, perhaps most urgently, “the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair”.
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