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14 Sep 2017, 11:34 pm

The Golden House is Salman Rushdie's not-so-great American nove

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The star attraction is the squat, raucous, violin- and ping-pong-playing Mumbai businessman who calls himself Nero Golden, keeper of secrets, lover of fine things and father of three grown sons: the autistic Petya, the bohemian Apu and the hermaphrodite D


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