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 a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium-a way of feeling and a way of telling. “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming.
An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” ( Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.
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