Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie
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Pub Date 29 Aug 2019 | Archive Date 18 Apr 2024
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Jonathan Cape
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Description
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***
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.
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. 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.
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, 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.
Advance Praise
[Quichotte is a] delightful confection… Humane and humorous. Rushdie is in top form, serving up a fine piece of literary satire.
Kirkus starred review
[Quichotte is a] delightful confection… Humane and humorous. Rushdie is in top form, serving up a fine piece of literary satire.
Kirkus starred review
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787331914 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 416 |
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Featured Reviews
Pam S, Reviewer
I read Don Quixotte very recently, so I was able to understand how Rushdie was inspired from it to create a modern version of it.
As Don Quixotte is a huge satire of its times, Rushdie's Quichotte is a huge satire for our times criticising many aspects of our present days. He created a character to carry the story, as Quixotte was the one in the center in Cervantes' version.
The writing is really reminiscent of the original novel. It follows a similar style, and I found it very successful from that perspective. I think it'll be very subjective to find it funny or not for both novels. Rushdie's story also had fun parts and some dull moments in my opinion.
Regardless, in terms of what he wanted to achieve in creating a modern version of Don Quixotte, I found it impressive.
Thanks a lot to the publisher and NetGalley for this copy in exchange for this copy.
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