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 the TV star Salman R. 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. Still, even if you feel overwhelmed, you can't help being charmed by Rushdie's largesse.***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** Sometimes, it reads like the work of a man trying to have the final word on everything before the world ends. 'While Quichotte is funny, it's rarely as funny as Rushdie thinks it is. 'Rushdie's narrative impulses are centrifugal they lie in tossing in celebrity cameos and literary allusions, in sending new plots into orbit in the hope they might lend glitter and ballast to a work sorely in need of both, sorely in need of tethering to the world, the concerted thinking and feeling of realism, not magic.' - The New York Times

Rushdie is in top form, serving up a fine piece of literary satire.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ' meditation on storytelling, memory, truth, and other hallmarks of a disappearing civilization.Humane and humorous. 'Rushdie's uproarious comedy, which talks to itself while packing a good deal of historical and political freight, is a brilliant rendition of the cheesy, sleazy, scary pandemonium of life in modern times.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie's work, the fully realized 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 satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. 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.' Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.

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. A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age - a tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.

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