Name: Quichotte
SKU: 52795345
Price: 15.17 EUR
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Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780593133002

Type

Physical Book

Author

Salman Rushdie

Publisher

Random House Trade

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13x2.5 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780593133002

Synopsis "Quichotte "

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)

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie (1947) is a British writer of Indian origin known for his narrative style that blends magical realism and historical fiction. His most notable work is Midnight's Children (1981), which earned him the Booker Prize and narrates the story of India's independence. Other important novels include The Satanic Verses (1988), which generated global controversy, The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), and Quichotte (2019)

Rushdie has explored themes such as identity, migration, and freedom of speech. In 2023, he published Victory City, a historical and fantastical novel. His contribution to literature has earned him international recognition, consolidating him as one of the most influential voices in contemporary narrative.

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