“ Quichotte an updating of Cervantes’ story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.” ( The Sunday Times) The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader - somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders. “ Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. “Brilliant.a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.” ( Financial Times) 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 listener 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.

Named One of The Best Books of The Year by Time and NPR Love and language.” (Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review )

“Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming.a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium - a way of feeling and a way of telling. An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” ( Time ) from internationally best-selling author Salman Rushdie

Quichotte by salman rushdie