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Aug 22, 2019 · Quichotte, the Booker Prize long-listed 14th novel from Salman Rushdie, is pitched as a “Don Quixote for the modern age,” but the book–a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder–is a ...
Aug 31, 2019 · Quichotte is published by Jonathan Cape (£20). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £15, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99. Explore ...
Sep 3, 2019 · Humane and humorous. Rushdie is in top form, serving up a fine piece of literary satire. A modern Don Quixote lands in Trumpian America and finds plenty of windmills to tilt at. Mix Rushdie’s last novel, The Golden House (2017), with his 1990 fable, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and you get something approaching this delightful confection.
Sep 4, 2019 · Quichotte’s great decision was made at the Red Roof Inn in Gallup, New Mexico (pop. 21,678). The traveling salesman looked with desire and envy upon Gallup’s historic El Rancho Hotel, which in the heyday of the Western had hosted many of the movie stars filming in the area, from John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart to Katharine Hepburn and Mae West.
Oct 28, 2019 · Rushdie’s Quichotte (pronounced key-shot) is a man, too, for whom the dark present of the 21 st century world, in its confusion and disharmony, has lost its appeal. Following a devastating “Interior Event” that renders impossible his previous life as a professor and journalist, he turns to work as a travelling pharmaceutical sales rep in ...
Quichotte (2019), a novel by British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, follows Ismail Smile, a senile pharmaceutical salesman as he sets off on a Don Quixote -inspired quest to win the heart of a television personality. This narrative is embedded in the meta-fictional story of Sam DuChamp, the writer who is inventing Smile’s story.
Jan 3, 2020 · Quichotte: A Novel. By Salman Rushdie. Random House. 416 pp. Reviewed by Bárbara Mujica. January 3, 2020. A traveling salesman struggles to distinguish between reality and fantasy in this uneven re-imagining of Don Quixote. Ismail Smile, a traveling salesman for a pharmaceutical company, has spent endless hours in tawdry motel rooms watching ...
