It''s layered in such a way that you will lose yourself in the shifting reality of it.' -NPR ' Quichotte, Rushdie''s Trump-era reworking of Cervantes''s Don Quixote, is a frantically inventive take on ''the Age of Anything-Can-Happen'' we''ve endured these last few years. And if Quichotte drives you nuts, that''s fine. Right?' - Entertainment Weekly 'Quichotte is a novel that attempts to reflect back to us the total, crumbling insanity of living in a world unmoored from reality - that shows what happens when lies become as good as facts. At least here''s something worth reading as civilization crumbles around us, before we succumb to our fates. Cervantes''s hero, who is eternally modern perhaps because he is essentially anti-contemporary, couldn''t be a more inspired transplant into the mad reality of the present day, which Rushdie sends up in terms both universal and highly specific, tragic and hilarious, strange but hauntingly familiar. Rushdie's dazzling and provocative improvisation on an essential classic has powerful resonance in this time of weaponized lies and denials.' - Booklist (starred review), 'Rushdie weaves together all of his subjects, sharply observed, with extraordinary elegance and wit. As his vivid, passionate, and imperiled characters are confronted with racism, sexism, displacement, family ruptures, opioid addiction, disease, cyber warfare, and planetary convulsions, they valiantly seek the transcendence of love. Rushdie meshes shrewd, parodic humor with intensifying suspense and pervasive sympathy, seeding this picaresque doomsday adventure with literary and television allusions and philosophical musings. This spellbinding, many-limbed saga of lives derailing in the 'Age of Anything-Can-Happen' is a wily frolic and a seismic denunciation. A brilliant rendition of the cheesy, sleazy, scary pandemonium of life in modern times.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'An exuberantly imagined and lacerating homage to the revered satire Don Quixote.

Rushdie's extravagant fiction is the lie that tells the truth. Rushdie is in top form.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'Allowing the wild adventure to overwhelm oneself is half the fun.

Witty, profound, tender, this love story shows a fiction master at his brilliant best.' - The Millions 'A meditation on storytelling, memory, truth, and other hallmarks of a disappearing civilization. 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.' - Library Journal (starred review) 'Hilarious by all accounts.' - Literary Hub ' is Don Quixote for our time, a smart satire of every aspect of the contemporary culture.

'This latest from Rushdie is nothing but extraordinary.

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie