Quichotte by Salman Rushdie [UNCORRECTED PROOF • ADVANCE] 2019 • Random House

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

UNCORRECTED PROOF [2019] RANDOM HOUSE

*Rare Advance Readers Copy / Uncorrected Proof [pre-publication] 

Large trade paperback in very good condition.

Some visible shelf wear to cover; crease to lower front. 

Pages look and read like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Boozer Prize nominated and 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

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 satirise 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 his work, the fully realised 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.