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Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote, Quichotte is a metafiction that tells the story of an addled Indian-American man who travels across America in pursuit of a celebrity television host with whom he has become obsessed.
Aug 29, 2019 · A modern reimagining of Don Quixote, Quichotte follows a delusional salesman and his imaginary son on a quest for love and fame in America. Read ratings, reviews, genres, and more about this Booker Prize-winning novel by the author of The Satanic Verses.
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In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
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Jul 23, 2020 · Framed as a riotous road trip across the United States, Quichotte tells the surreal, satirical story of a television-obsessed travelling salesman and his imaginary son in a bravura pastiche of Cervantes' classic Don Quixote.
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Apr 1, 2019 · A novel inspired by Cervantes' classic, about a mediocre writer and his imaginary son who embark on a quest across America. Rushdie satirizes the culture of his time, explores the themes of love, language, and truth, and creates a wild and entertaining story.
Quichotte, an ageing travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films, soaps, comedies and dramas has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality.
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“Quichotte, Rushdie’s Trump-era reworking of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, is a frantically inventive take on ‘the Age of Anything-Can-Happen’ we’ve endured these last few years. It’s a concoction of narratives within narratives that blends the latest news headlines with apocalyptic flights of fancy. . . .
