THE GOLDEN HOUSE Hardcover - 2017

New York City, NY: Random House, 2017. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Random House, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 400 pages. The author's thirteenth novel. One of Salman Rushdie's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Salman Rushdie's "The Golden House". About the American money-zeitgeist, "The Great Gatsby" meets "The Bonfire of The Vanities". "Begins around Obama's inauguration and ends in our present time. A novel about our times, it is also a story steeped in Greek tragedy. Nero Golden is a wealthy immigrant with three sons who has moved from Mumbai to New York under mysterious circumstances. He takes up residence in a downtown mansion, where he acquires a beautiful Russian second wife. Nero, his new wife, and his sons establish their respective places in New York society, and their stories are told through the eyes of an aspiring filmmaker who lives across the street, and who becomes entangled in the rapidly unwinding drama of the Golden family. An entertaining and enlightening novel with much to say about modern America" (Chris Schluep). The novel is dedicated to Alba and Francesco Clemente, the great Italian artist and his wife, with whom Rushdie collaborated on "Made In India" (2011), Clemente's most recent, exquisite paintings inspired and influenced by Classical Indian art. An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such title-page signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful signatures by Salman Rushdie we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0399592806.