Rushdie’s uproarious comedy, which talks to itself while packing a good deal of historical and political freight, is a brilliant rendition of the cheesy, sleazy, scary pandemonium of life in modern times. Rushdie’s extravagant fiction is the lie that tells the truth, and, hilariously, it’s not lost on the reader that he shares this Falstaffian and duplicitous notion with none other than Trump (who is never named). Allowing the wild adventure to overwhelm oneself is half the fun. But in a frayed and feverish way, he captures their flavor exactly.' - The Boston Globe 'Salman Rushdies Quichotte is a behemoth of a novel, and with reason. Rushdie doesnt offer much hope for our dispiriting times. They experience weird, end-of-time events-people turn into mastodons, rips appear in the atmosphere-but also talking crickets and blue fairies offering something like hope. Its a concoction of narratives within narratives that blends the latest news headlines with apocalyptic flights of fancy. Quichotte and son Sancho brave Rushdie’s tragicomic, terrifying version of America, a Trumpland full of bigots, opioids, and violence. In this story within a story, Sam DuChamp, author of spy thrillers and father of a missing son, creates Quichotte, an elegant but deluded, TV-obsessed pharma salesman who strikes out cross-country with the son he’s dreamed into existence, to kneel at the feet of an actress by the name of Miss Salma R. Rushdie’s rambunctious latest (following The Golden House) hurtles through surreal time and space with the author’s retooled Don Quixote on a quest for love and redemption in an unloving and irredeemable U.S.A.
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