The Golden House

The Golden House is a work of fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Salman Rushdie

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

The Random House Group Ltd: Excerpt from “You Will Hear Thunder” from Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D. M. Thomas (London: Vintage Classics, 2009). First published as You Will Hear Thunder (London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1995). Copyright © 1976, 1979, 1985 by D. M. Thomas. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

Laura Truffaut: Quotation from La Femme d’á côté (1981, France, Director: François Truffaut, Screenplay: François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, and Jean Aurel) is reprinted with the permission of Laura Truffaut.

United Agents LLP on behalf of The Royal Literary Fund: Excerpt from Sheppey by W. Somerset Maugham. Reprinted by permission of United Agents LLP on behalf of The Royal Literary Fund.

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