Quichotte

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium--a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.”--Jeanette Winterson, NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY 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. 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 Praise for Quichotte “Brilliant . . . a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.” -- “ -- “ -- ...

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780593133002
• ISBN: 978-0-593-13300-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature