Quichotte

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***

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.

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 the TV star Salman R. 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, 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.

*** PREZENTAT PENTRU PREMIUL BOOKER 2019 *** Intr-un tur de forta care este atat un omagiu adus unei opere nemuritoare de literatura, cat si o capodopera moderna despre cautarea dragostei si familiei, autorul bestsellerului international castigator al premiului Booker Salman Rushdie a creat un Don Quijote orbitor pentru epoca moderna. Inspirat din clasicul Cervantes, Sam DuChamp, scriitor mediocru de thrilleri de spionaj, il creeaza pe Quichotte, un vanzator curtenitor, indraznet, obsedat de televiziune, care se indragosteste imposibil de vedeta TV Salman R.