And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. An aging salesman loses his job as a pharmaceutical rep, fired, with regret, by. Mix Rushdie’s last novel, The Golden House (2017), with his 1990 fable, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and you get something approaching this delightful confection. In Quichotte, Rushdie brilliantly demonstrates the way that a writers life.

3, 2019 A modern Don Quixote lands in Trumpian America and finds plenty of windmills to tilt at. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. A modern Don Quixote lands in Trumpian America and finds plenty of windmills to tilt at. A glorious 21st-century riff on Cervantess 17th century classic Don Quixote. QUICHOTTE by Salman Rushdie RELEASE DATE: Sept. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen”. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Quixote for the modern age, a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED.

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