Quichotte is an Indian man of advancing years, living in America and working as a travelling pharmaceutical salesman: following a stroke, he’s lost his grip on reality and become addicted to reality TV. If that was an allegory for India’s independence and then partition, Quichotte goes as far as to align the death of the author with the end of the entire world. Many balls are juggles here, but, somehow, Rushdie keeps them all gloriously in the air.Salman Rushdie’s new novel – already longlisted for the Booker Prize – is a sprawling behemoth, feeling finally as big in scope as Midnight’s Children, which twice won the Best of Booker. 'Rushdie's fans will find much to love in this hyperactive, tenchicolour satire. More than just another postmodern box of tricks, is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.' - The Times 'A novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. packed, funny, melancholy, masterpiece of a novel.' - The Times 'A triumphant assault on the coarsened American sensibility. a glimmer of hope, like an impossible dream, is left for us. His readers realize that they would happily follow Rushdie to the end of the world.
'A brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder. This novel can fly, it can float, it's anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.
Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. But it's rare for a writer to produce their best work towards the end of their career. 'Rushdie is one of the greats of his generation. Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781529111989 Number of pages: 416 Weight: 287 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.
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. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. 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'. 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 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.
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