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About the product A new novel by the legendary Salman Rushdie, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019 and one of the best books of the year according to Time magazine. Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. But what would become of the Knight of the Sorrowful Image if he happened to be born today? And not in the harsh lands of Castile, but in the United States of America? One of the most iconic prose writers of our time, Salman Rushdie, offers his own answer to this question. His hero, the middle-class writer Sam Duchamp, turns his «Alonso Quihano» (and this is exactly the name of the hero of Cervantes in fact) — in an elderly merchant Kishota, to the madness of a fan of the fictitious world of television. As expected, Duchamp presents his Kishote with an unattainable lover, TV star Miss Salma R., as well as a fictional son named Sancho, with whom, in fact, he goes on a journey full of amazing adventures across modern America — Trump America, crazy America of dusty roads and endless possibilities. And this journey becomes an excellent opportunity for Rushdie to talk with the reader about racism, drug addiction, information trash, family ties, quantum physics and much, much more Abstract Sam Duchamp, author of spy novels, inspired by the immortal masterpiece of Cervantes, invents his own Don Quixote and names him Ismail Smile. This Quixote, or Kishot — this is the name of the Spanish hero in French and, by the way, this is probably how it was pronounced during the time of Cervantes himself — turns in Rushdie’s (or Sam Duchamp’s?) Into a former sales manager at the American pharmaceutical company «Smile» … And this Kishot is not fascinated by chivalric romances, he is a real fan of television, in love with TV star Salma R. In an effort to win the favor of his American Dulcinea, Ismail Smile sets off on a journey across America — of course, not alone, but in the company of his imaginary son Sancho. …
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