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Quichotte by salman rushdie5/29/2023 Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the listener on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. 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. 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. Named One of The Best Books of The Year by Time and NPR Love and language.” (Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review ) “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming.a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium - a way of feeling and a way of telling. An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” ( Time ) from internationally best-selling author Salman Rushdie
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