**A dazzling _Don Quixote_ for the modern age--an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie ** **** **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
Quichotte
✍ Scribed by Salman Rushdie
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 510 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE **
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**Quichotteis a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful, it illuminates our corrupt times where fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
Quichotte, an aging travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films and soaps has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality. He wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence, while obsessively writing love letters to a celebrity he knows only through his screen. Together the two innocents set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Quichotte's story is told by Sam DuChamp, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a...
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