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| Author | Salman Rushdie |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Vikas Adam[1] |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Picaresque novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape[2] |
Publication date | 29 August 2019 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78733-191-4 |
| 823/.914 | |
| LC Class | PR6068.U757 Q53 2019 |
Quichotte (UK: /kiːˈʃɒt/ kee-SHOT, French: [kiʃɔt]) is a 2019 novel by Salman Rushdie. It is his fourteenth novel, published on 29 August 2019 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and Penguin Books India in India. It was published in the United States on 3 September 2019 by Random House. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote, Quichotte is a metafiction that tells the story of an addled Indian-American man who travels across America in pursuit of a celebrity television host with whom he has become obsessed.
The novel received favourable reviews and was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.[3]
- ^ "Quichotte by Salman Rushdie". Penguin Random House Audio.
- ^ "Quichotte". Penguin Books.
- ^ Marshall, Alex (3 September 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie on Booker Prize Shortlist". The New York Times.