![]() ![]() At that point, the Golden family decided they wanted to move in.” It also had a Rear Window quality, of being able to spy on everybody else’s lives. “I had this lightbulb moment that it was like a theatre – with a Greek tragedy, amphitheatre quality – where the characters could enact their stories. “The idea of there being a secret space inside this noisy public space,” he says. It is a space that exists in real life (although, as one of the characters in The Golden House observes, real life is a category from which it is increasingly hard to distinguish less reliable entities) and with which Rushdie is familiar old friends inhabit one of the houses backing on to the garden. ![]() T he image that came to Salman Rushdie, around which he would build his new novel, was an enclosed garden in downtown Manhattan. ![]()
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