Quichotte

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019</b><br><br>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 <i>Don Quixote</i> for the modern age.<br><br>Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, an ageing travelling salesman who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his imaginary son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.<br><br>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. 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.</p> SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019In 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.Inspired by the Cervantes classic Sam DuChamp mediocre writer of spy thrillers creates Quichotte an ageing travelling salesman who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his imaginary son Sancho Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand. Meanwhile his creator in a midlife crisis has equally urgent challenges of his own.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. 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. Review A meditation on storytelling memory truth and other hallmarks of a disappearing civilization . . . Humane and humorous. Rushdie is in top form ―KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)Allowing the wild adventure to overwhelm oneself is half the fun. Rushdie's extravagant fiction is the lie that tells the truth . . . A brilliant rendition of the cheesy sleazy scary pandemonium of life in modern times ―PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)As his vivid passionate and imperiled characters are confronted with racism sexism displacement family ruptures opioid addiction disease cyber warfare and planetary convulsions they valiantly seek the transcendence of love. Rushdie's dazzling and provocative improvisation on an essential classic has powerful resonance in this time of weaponized lies and denials ―BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) About the Author Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels-Grimus Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker) Shame The Satanic Verses Haroun and The Sea of Stories The Moor's Last Sigh The Ground Beneath Her Feet Fury Shalimar the Clown The Enchantress of Florence Luka and the Fire of Life and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights-and one collection of short stories East West. He has also published four works of nonfiction-Joseph Anton The Jaguar Smile Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line-and co-edited two anthologies Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.Date 2004-10-21Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels - Grimus Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker) Shame The Satanic Verses Haroun and the Sea of Stories The Moor's Last Sigh The Ground Beneath Her Feet Fury Shalimar the Clown The Enchantress of Florence Luka and the Fire of Life Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights The Golden House and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize) - and one collection of short stories East West. He has also published four works of non-fiction - Joseph Anton The Jaguar Smile Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line - and co-edited two anthologies Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.