![]() ![]() There are these two narrative lines, which echo and mirror and talk to each other. ![]() This was a scary book for me to write, because I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to pull it off. “It comes from the literary tradition of the picaresque novel, combined with a certain kind of modernist playfulness,” Rushdie says. As Quichotte (the name he takes in letters to his beloved) travels across the country to meet Miss Salma R, a parallel plot concerns the writer who created him these twin story lines eventually converge in a fantastical ending that tips its hat to some of the science fiction tales Rushdie loved as a boy. Inspired by Cervantes’s Don Quixote, the novel portrays an elderly traveling salesman “deranged by reality television” who falls in love with the host of a daytime talk show whom he has never met. Rushdie takes another journey into unexplored territory in Quichotte, which will be published by Random House in September and was recently long-listed for the Booker. ![]()
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