Here's the Guardian's review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/16/the-golden-house-salman-rushdie-review
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The book begins with the election of Barack Obama and ends eight years later on the eve of an election in which the lead contender refers to himself as “the Joker”. Nero’s character contains echoes of Trump, too; he is a man of fabulous wealth, with a beautiful Russian wife, and a fortune thought to be in part built on real estate. The novel’s transnational supporting cast includes an Australian hypnotist; a Burmese diplomat; Ivy Manuel, a night-club singer; a Somalian artist; and Nero’s assistants, Fuss and Blather. As the election nears, America is deeply divided. “It was a year of two bubbles,” René muses. “In one of those bubbles, the Joker shrieked and the laugh-track crowd laughed right on cue.” In that bubble, “knowledge was ignorance, up was down and the right person to hold the nuclear codes was the green-skinned red-slashed-mouthed giggler”. Thus, by the book’s end, the bubble of New York is where reality perseveres.
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Can't wait to get into it - Rushdie's not the first to use a journalist narrator to tell a story, but I'll bet it's a beaut; even better than the one Tom "wanted to tell" by following around the Underwoods in House of Cards, and, yikes, that didn't end well, any way you look at it -- in the story, in the cast's lives, for the series as a whole!
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