The Golden House
5 journalers for this copy...
I like this book so far (p. 99).
Finished it yesterday.
A very epic novel in a very modern setting.
I liked it.
Unfortunately I couldn't understand some of the filmic and a few of the literal allusions. A sometimes I had the feeling that Rushdie tried too hard to evoke tension.
I would send it around as a ring.
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A very epic novel in a very modern setting.
I liked it.
Unfortunately I couldn't understand some of the filmic and a few of the literal allusions. A sometimes I had the feeling that Rushdie tried too hard to evoke tension.
I would send it around as a ring.
1. Amelie13
2. Lilo37Fee
3. soleille
4. freuju
5. DU?!?
Und zurück zu mimi4711
Das Buch ist angekommen, vielen Dank!
Thank you. I like the author and look forward to reading this book.
Like Rushdie´s earlier novels the „Golden House” is very well written, exciting, good to read.
Nero Golden is at the heart of this story, erecting buildings with his name in gold. “This was a powerful man, no, more than that – a man deeply in love with the idea of himself as powerful.”
Nero and his three sons have immigrated from India, having fled some catastrophe under mysterious circumstances. The eldest son, newly named Petronius, is known as Petya; Lucius Apuleis becomes Apu; and Dionysus is D. The story is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René. René is an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. A lot of the book is told in references to movies, but also to books and art.
American policy plays role but not central, more as a background distraction. The Golden House begins with the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and concludes with the election of “The Joker,” a nickname for a Trump-y amalgam who has the green hair, white skin and red lips of Gotham City’s original.
I like the book and think it is Rushdie´s best novel since “Midnight's Children”. A little bit I wonder who is Rushdie in this book. René states at one point that the author always has something of ll his characters in himself.
And I wonder why there are no novels like this in modern German literature.
Nero Golden is at the heart of this story, erecting buildings with his name in gold. “This was a powerful man, no, more than that – a man deeply in love with the idea of himself as powerful.”
Nero and his three sons have immigrated from India, having fled some catastrophe under mysterious circumstances. The eldest son, newly named Petronius, is known as Petya; Lucius Apuleis becomes Apu; and Dionysus is D. The story is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René. René is an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. A lot of the book is told in references to movies, but also to books and art.
American policy plays role but not central, more as a background distraction. The Golden House begins with the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and concludes with the election of “The Joker,” a nickname for a Trump-y amalgam who has the green hair, white skin and red lips of Gotham City’s original.
I like the book and think it is Rushdie´s best novel since “Midnight's Children”. A little bit I wonder who is Rushdie in this book. René states at one point that the author always has something of ll his characters in himself.
And I wonder why there are no novels like this in modern German literature.
wartet jetzt bei mir auf Zeit, sich ihm gebührend zu widmen
This was a very welcome return to form. I've loved Midnight Children and The Ground Beneath Her Feet but have struggled with every Rushdie book ever since - not so this one.
Once I could give it my full attention instead of sneaking a page in here and there at work, it had me totally enthralled and I finished it in one night.
I'd mainly wanted to read it for its (very unsubtle!) references to current US affairs, and that didn't disappoint, it's very much a child of its time, but I got a lot more invested in the narrative and the personae than I would have thought.
Thanks for sharing! On its way to freuju since yesterday
Once I could give it my full attention instead of sneaking a page in here and there at work, it had me totally enthralled and I finished it in one night.
I'd mainly wanted to read it for its (very unsubtle!) references to current US affairs, and that didn't disappoint, it's very much a child of its time, but I got a lot more invested in the narrative and the personae than I would have thought.
Thanks for sharing! On its way to freuju since yesterday
Arrived today, thanks for sending it on! :)
It took me a while, but I'm finally done with the book which appears a classical tragedy in the shape of a modern novel. I must say that it took some time for me to warm up to the story and the way it is told, but in the end I enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks for the book ring! :)
Thanks for the book ring! :)
It's back home!