The Golden House

Nehmen, lesen, freilassen
by Salman Rushdie | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0399592814 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingmimi4711wing of Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on 10/23/2017
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5 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by wingmimi4711wing from Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, October 23, 2017
I like this book so far (p. 99).

Journal Entry 2 by wingmimi4711wing at Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Sunday, December 17, 2017
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.
1. Amelie13
2. Lilo37Fee
3. soleille
4. freuju
5. DU?!?
Und zurück zu mimi4711

Journal Entry 3 by Amelie_13 at Wiesbaden, Hessen Germany on Sunday, January 28, 2018
Das Buch ist angekommen, vielen Dank!

Journal Entry 4 by wingLilo37feewing at -- Irgendwo in Bayern, Bayern Germany on Monday, March 26, 2018
Thank you. I like the author and look forward to reading this book.

Journal Entry 5 by wingLilo37feewing at -- Irgendwo in Bayern, Bayern Germany on Sunday, April 1, 2018
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.

Journal Entry 6 by soleille at Leipzig, Sachsen Germany on Sunday, April 22, 2018
wartet jetzt bei mir auf Zeit, sich ihm gebührend zu widmen

Journal Entry 7 by soleille at Leipzig, Sachsen Germany on Thursday, May 3, 2018
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

Journal Entry 8 by freuju at Waldkirchen, Bayern Germany on Monday, May 7, 2018
Arrived today, thanks for sending it on! :)

Journal Entry 9 by freuju at Waldkirchen, Bayern Germany on Thursday, June 14, 2018
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! :)

Journal Entry 10 by wingmimi4711wing at Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Wednesday, July 4, 2018
It's back home!

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