East meets West in a blaze of glory in Salman Rushdie’s masterful, magical story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world.
Salman Rushdie’s tragicomic tale is very much of our deranged time, but was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ classic Don Quixote.
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.
Salman Rushdie
About the Author
Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, winning in 1981, and was knighted for services to literature in 2007.Salman Rushdie reads from Quichotte
Salman Rushdie reads from his ‘panoramic’ novel Quichotte, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.
The author also explains his inspiration for the main characters in the book.
Salman Rushdie.
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Other nominated books by Salman Rushdie
A killing in Los Angeles has its roots in a shattered paradise halfway across the globe, in Salman Rushdie’s inventive and powerful fiction.
Salman Rushdie asks what we do when the world’s walls - its family structures, its value-systems, its political forms - start to crumble.
Salman Rushdie’s magical realist epic. Hugely complex and multilayered, it remains one of the most controversial books in recent literary history.
Salman Rushdie combines magic realism with a fierce rivalry to illustrate his central theme - that shame begets violence and violence begets shame.
Saleem’s life is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible, in Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece.
