Salman Rushdie is writing a new novel. The Golden House, which will be released in September 2017, follows a young filmmaker coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama through to the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

According to Penguin Random House Canada, Rushdie will reflect on everything from the Tea Party and identity politics to the rise of a certain "ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain" with unusually coloured hair.

Rushdie's previous works include Midnight's Children, which won the 1981 Booker Prize, and The Satanic Verses. His most recent novel is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a retelling of The Arabian Nights.

Louise Dennys, executive publisher at Penguin Random House Canada, predicted The Golden House will be "our must read novel of the year."

"[H]e lays bare a changing world and a nation in crisis, leaving one with a deeper sense of understanding of these confounding times," Dennys said in a press release.