Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording Author: Rushdie, Salman, author. Title: Quichotte : a novel / Salman Rushdie. Edition: Unabridged. Publisher, Date: New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2019] ℗2019 Description: 13 audio discs (16 hr., 3 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. audio file CD audio Summary: In a modern adaptation of "Don Quixote," a courtly, addled salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with his imaginary son Sancho to find and convince a television star of his love for her. Subjects: 2000-2099 Traveling sales personnel -- Fiction. Voyages and travels -- Fiction. Novelists -- Fiction. Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction. FICTION / Sagas. Civilization. Novelists. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Quests (Expeditions) Traveling sales personnel. Voyages and travels. United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Fiction. United States. Genre: Audiobooks. Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Sagas. Satirical fiction. Sagas. Satirical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Audiobooks. Satire. Other Contributor: Adam, Vikas, narrator. Adaptation of (work): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Don Quixote. Notes: Title from container. Compact discs. Read by Vikas Adam. ISBN: 9780593162620 0593162625 9780593162620 Publisher or Distributor Number: PRHA 9322 OCLC: 1111580449 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewThis latest from Rushdie (The Golden House) is nothing but extraordinary. Our main character, Quichotte (an alternate spelling of Quixote), is an aged, poststroke Indian American traveling pharmaceutical rep who is confused about the boundary between TV and real life and inhabits a netherworld of fantasy. He is enamored of a mega-famous Indian American talk show host, Salma R., to whom he writes beautiful love letters. On a second level, the book overtly narrates the writing of the main story through the character of the author. This brings an added level of interiority, exposing and commenting upon the process of the novel in progress. The life of the author and that of Quichotte mimic each other, Quichotte's story taking place across America and the author's centered on London. Both converge on opioid abuse, the loss of father-son connection, and estranged brother-sister relationships, though Quichotte's story goes the extra mile to include the imminent destruction of the earth with an escape portal to alternate dimensions as the cure. VERDICT This incisively outlandish but lyrical meditation on intolerance, TV addiction, and the opioid crisis operates on multiple planes, with razor-sharp topicality and humor, delivering a reflective examination of the plight of marginalized personhood with veritable aplomb. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 3/11/19.]--Henry Bankhead, San Rafael P.L., CAPublishers Weekly ReviewRushdie'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. 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. Quichotte and son Sancho brave Rushdie's tragicomic, terrifying version of America, a Trumpland full of bigots, opioids, and violence. 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. Allowing the wild adventure to overwhelm oneself is half the fun. 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). 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. Agent: Andrew Wylie, the Wylie Agency. (Sept.) Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1