<p> For all Salman Rushdie fans, here is the news you were waiting for. The master storyteller’s new novel The Golden House, described as a “modern-day thriller”, is hitting the stands this September.<br /><br /></p>.<p>His 13th novel, being celebrated by Indian publisher Penguin Random House India as his “finest”, was described as a “breathtaking one on a sprawling canvas”.<br /><br />The Penguin Random House India, which acquired the subcontinent rights of the novel from Wylie Agency, said it follows a “mysteriously wealthy family” from Mumbai that is desperately seeking to forget the tragedy they left behind, as they feverishly reinvent themselves in New York City.<br /><br />“Copiously detailed, sumptuously inventive, brimming with all the razzle-dazzle that imbues his fiction with the lush ambience of a fable, The Golden House is about where we were before 26/11, where we are today and how we got here. Here is a book that asks us – in a post-truth world – if facts and authenticity are necessarily the same thing, while never ceasing to be both resonant and entertaining,” it said.<br />Arundhati returns too<br /><br />Rushdie’s offering will be a double delight for readers this year, as Arundhati Roy is also returning to the world of fiction with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in June. <br />This will be Roy’s first work of fiction since The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.<br /><br />Meru Gokhale, editor-in-chief (Literary Publishing) at Penguin Random House India, said, “The Golden House is a masterclass on the confusing world we have brought upon ourselves. The book dissects the cultural and political vacuum in which a generation – whose frame of reference for globalisation has increasingly been coloured by conflict – must perform an intense balancing act...”<br /><br /></p>
<p> For all Salman Rushdie fans, here is the news you were waiting for. The master storyteller’s new novel The Golden House, described as a “modern-day thriller”, is hitting the stands this September.<br /><br /></p>.<p>His 13th novel, being celebrated by Indian publisher Penguin Random House India as his “finest”, was described as a “breathtaking one on a sprawling canvas”.<br /><br />The Penguin Random House India, which acquired the subcontinent rights of the novel from Wylie Agency, said it follows a “mysteriously wealthy family” from Mumbai that is desperately seeking to forget the tragedy they left behind, as they feverishly reinvent themselves in New York City.<br /><br />“Copiously detailed, sumptuously inventive, brimming with all the razzle-dazzle that imbues his fiction with the lush ambience of a fable, The Golden House is about where we were before 26/11, where we are today and how we got here. Here is a book that asks us – in a post-truth world – if facts and authenticity are necessarily the same thing, while never ceasing to be both resonant and entertaining,” it said.<br />Arundhati returns too<br /><br />Rushdie’s offering will be a double delight for readers this year, as Arundhati Roy is also returning to the world of fiction with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in June. <br />This will be Roy’s first work of fiction since The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.<br /><br />Meru Gokhale, editor-in-chief (Literary Publishing) at Penguin Random House India, said, “The Golden House is a masterclass on the confusing world we have brought upon ourselves. The book dissects the cultural and political vacuum in which a generation – whose frame of reference for globalisation has increasingly been coloured by conflict – must perform an intense balancing act...”<br /><br /></p>
