Adapting a novel to the current state of the United States could only lead to a thriller. And that is how the good of Salman Rushdie, so lucid in his literary creations that they have come to cost him notorious political persecutions in the past.
The social and political situation, the horrifying current and future scenario, the moral imposition background of the new political class and the dark movements of power, including intelligence agencies and others, become the first pages of a modern apocalypse.
To delve into what there is, in that dark omen that moves us all every time we see the silvery-blond man on TV, Salman introduces us to the Golden family, around which the rings of this fiction that ends up linking with the current North American panorama.
The Golden lived their American dream, with their secrets well swept under the rug. But the sad circumstances to which they are led end up putting them on the pillory, presenting them with all those inconceivable matters, as dead at the very door of their house.
Very representative characters of recent years circulate around the Golden in America, reconquered by the most brutal conservatism. The struggle for survival in a polarized society seems to be able to justify everything. And in the end there are many more who swept secrets under their carpets, and history offers us a vision of American society as a syndicate that justifies its delivery into the hands of the craziest of its own.
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