Zlatý dům – Rushdie Salman (2018)

The world-renowned prose writer, whose every new work is anticipated with the expectation of a planetary sensation, has written the first major novel of the Trump era. The multilayered story, framed by the presidency of Barack Obama and the election of a new president, tells of the mysterious magnate Nero Golden and his three sons. A powerful man, who is a former associate of the Bombay construction and film mafia, and for that reason jealously guards the secrets of his past, moves into a luxury apartment block in New York's SoHo. His presence sparks a flurry of speculation and rumors, not only due to his eccentric behavior or his marriage to a beautiful and calculating Russian émigré. One of those eager to learn more about Nero is the novel's narrator, young filmmaker René, who is tempted by the idea of making a semi-documentary film about the family and its fate. However, an apocalypse is soon to come... The filmic stylization, noir atmosphere, pop culture references, and a dense plot with many digressions all create a grand "firework of vanity" of contemporary crazed America.