Quichotte Salman Rushdie by Salman Rushdie 9781787331921, 178733192X, B07PFZJ1QP instant download after payment.

Salman Rushdie’s tragicomic tale is very much of our deranged time, but was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ classic Don Quixote. A tour-de-force that is both a homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family. Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Quichotte is the story of an aging travelling salesman who falls in love with a TV star and sets off to drive across America on a quest to prove himself worthy of her hand. Throughout the course of this chaotic story, Rushdie tackles challenges old and new: father-son relationships, sibling quarrels, racism, the opioid crisis, cyber-spies - and the small matter of the end of the world. 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.

"Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism ... A glorious 21st-century riff on Cervantes’s 17th-century classic Don Quixote ... In Quichotte, Rushdie brilliantly demonstrates the way that a writer’s life seeps into their work, sometimes deliberately, sometimes less so ... 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 ..."  -  Claire Lowdon, The Sunday TImes (UK)

Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning once in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007.