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"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.
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Contemporary, relentless, meticulous and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Salman Rushdie
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 382
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Vintage Canada
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9783570103333
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Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
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