Quichotte

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Salman Rushdie x{0026}lt;/B (Bombay, 1947), es autor de numerosos libros, de entre los que destacan x{0026}lt;I Hijos de la medianoche x{0026}lt;/I -que ganó el premio Booker en 1981, el Booker de los Booker en 1993 y, en 2008, el Mejor de los Booker -, x{0026}lt;I Los versos satánicosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El último suspiro del morox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Joseph Anton x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Quijotex{0026}lt;/I . Ha sido galardonado con el Grinzane Cavour y el Premio Nacional de las Artes de Estados Unidos, además de otros muchos premios. En 2007, Salman Rushdie fue nombrado Caballero del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y Commandeur dans lx{0026} x02019;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, y abanderado en la lucha por la libertad de expresión, en 2022 sobrevivió a un ataque sufrido mientras dictaba una conferencia en el estado de Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P