SALMAN RUSHDIE :SATANIC VERSE AUTHOR RELEASES GOLDEN HOUSE

SALMAN RUSHDIE :SATANIC VERSE AUTHOR RELEASES GOLDEN HOUSE

Salman Rushdie remember him,well he is that Indian Author whose satire :The Satanic Verses got him into very serious hot waters with the very strict version of Islam in Iran,Shiite School of Islamic   Jurisprudence revered leader Ayatollah Alli Khomeini now deceased had ordered a fatwa against thus necessitating his going on exile  has now launched a new book.

The News office Desk of the E.N.M. Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria can now confirm  lives in the United States of America where he has been hibernating after been in hiding in the United Kingdom for several years as Islamic militants went after him

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie^[a] born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.

His epic fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection.

In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior literary organisation. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999.^[5] In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature.^[6] In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.^[7]

Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015.^[8] Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses.

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From Random House: A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts "The Great Gatsby" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities"

On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, a brilliant recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant artist, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on twenty blocks; and D, at twenty-two the baby of the family, harboring an explosive secret even from himself. There is no mother, no wife; at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his king—a queen in want of an heir.

Our guide to the Goldens’ world is their neighbor René, an ambitious young filmmaker. Researching a movie about the Goldens, he ingratiates himself into their household. Seduced by their mystique, he is inevitably implicated in their quarrels, their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain comic-book villain embarks upon a crass presidential run that turns New York upside-down.

Set against the strange and exuberant backdrop of current American culture and politics, "The Golden House" also marks Salman Rushdie’s triumphant and exciting return to realism. The result is a modern epic of love and terrorism, loss and reinvention—a powerful, timely story told with the daring and panache that make Salman Rushdie a force of light in our dark new age.