Summary provided by the publisher:
"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis. As their stories intertwine, we are taken on a wild, picaresque journey through a country on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie brings us a new twist on a classic. Quichotte is a profoundly human love story and a wickedly entertaining satire of a corrupt age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. With unforgettable characters and riveting suspense, this dazzling novel showcases an essential storyteller at his brilliant best."

Personal hand-over while sharing a meal and going on a walk along Lake Schlachtensee.
Hope you enjoy this book!

Thank you so much for this wishlist book! Rushdie's previous novel The Golden House didn't really grab me, but I enjoyed the others tremendously, so I'm very curious about this one.

This was brilliant! I'm always impressed by Rushdie's imagination, how he comes up with those ideas - like the projection of somebody's mind coming into existence, and then talking to a projection of his - brand new - mind, who is... a talking cricket. Yes, Pinocchio! It isn't only about Don Quixote, Sancho Panza and Dulcinea. There is so much in this novel besides the plot, or rather: the two plotlines, it's, as expected from Rushdie, full of cultural allusions, social criticism, pointing out at racism, illegal pharmaceutic trade etc., layers and layers... It certainly deserved its place on last year's Booker list.

Reserved for conto.

For conto. Hope you like it.
Great to see you again!

Thank you so much, ApoloniaX, for bringing me this all the way from Germany, together with the beautiful calendar from Berlin and, especially, the wonderful handmade mask.
It was really great to see you again and I'm glad you did make it to Lisbon after all. I hope I won't take as long to read this one as I did with the other ;)

I still didn't get to this one, but a close friend borrowed it and has just returned the book saying it was an amazing read, not an easy one, difficult to start with, grabbed her from a few pages on and then lost her again close to the end. More than what he tells, it's the way he tells it and his writing is just amazing - her words.
I don't know when, but I'll read it in due time.