![]() ![]() ![]() The man goes on a journey across the US to meet her. Instead of being set somewhere in La Mancha, Rushdie's modernized version of the Spanish tale takes place in Trumpland, in "the Age of Anything-Can-Happen," and depicts the quest of an aging India-born traveling salesman who has fallen in love with a former Bollywood star who has meanwhile turned into a popular TV host. Now with Quichotte, published on September 3 in the US, the British Indian author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses tackles Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, known as the world's first modern novel. His three latest novels directly pay tribute to classics of literature: His 2015 work, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, is an homage to the collection of Middle Eastern folk tales One Thousand and One Nights the novel that followed in 2017, The Golden House, refers to The Golden Ass by Apuleius, the only ancient Roman novel in Latin that survived in its entirety. Salman Rushdie is renowned for integrating countless references to classical and contemporary culture in his works. ![]()
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