01793cam a2200301 i 4500 327263939 TxAuBib 20170925120000.0 170511s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780399592805 0399592806 (OCoLC)971069224 TxAuBib rda Rushdie, Salman. The golden house : a novel / Salman Rushdie. First edition. New York : Random House, [2017] 380 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, a brilliant recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant artist, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on twenty blocks; and D, at twenty-two the baby of the family, harboring an explosive secret even from himself. There is no mother, no wife; at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his king--a queen in want of an heir. 20170925. Billionaires Fiction. Motion picture producers and directors Fiction. Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Domestic fiction.