NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic Don Quixote for the modern age a brilliant funny
world-encompassing wonder (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
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 The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE
BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR 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 Don Quixote
to satirize 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 Rushdie's work the fully realized 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. Praise for Quichotte Brilliant . . . a perfect fit for
a moment of transcontinental derangement.-Financial Times Quichotte is one of the cleverest
most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. . . . 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. . . . This novel can fly it can float it's
anecdotal effervescent charming and a jolly good story to boot.-The Sunday Times Quichotte
[is] an updating of Cervantes's story that proves to be an equally complicated literary
encounter jumbling together a chivalric quest a satire on Trump's America and a whole lot of
postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel
of monkeys. . . . This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.-The Times (UK)
