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The Golden House
by Salman Rushdie.
Cape, 370 pp., £18.99, September 2017,978 1 78733 015 3 Show More
by Salman Rushdie.
Cape, 370 pp., £18.99, September 2017,
“... the idea that they may be living in a metropolitan bubble, but René Unterlinden, the narrator of Salman Rushdie’s latest book, has been raised to call the bubble his home. ‘De point is,’ his father – not the only character in the novel with a comic accent – tells him, ‘we like de bubble, and so do you … So dis iss who you are … The boy ... ”