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Sėm Di͡ushan, sochinitelʹ shpionskikh romanov, vdokhnovlennyĭ bessmertnym shedevrom Servantesa, pridumyvaet svoego Don Kikhota - pozhilogo torgovt͡sa Kishota, nastoi͡ashchego fanata televidenii͡a, vli͡ublennogo v telezvezdu. Vmeste so svoim (voobrazhaemym) synom Sancho Kishot puskaetsi͡a v polnoe avanti͡ur stranstvie po Amerike, chtoby dokazatʹ, chto on dostoin blagosklonnosti svoeĭ vozli͡ublennoĭ. A ego sozdatelʹ, perezhivai͡ushchiĭ ėkzistent͡sialʹnyĭ krizis srednego vozrasta, prokhodit sobstvennye ispytanii͡a. Novyĭ roman legendarnogo Salmana Rushdi, voshedshiĭ v short-list Bukerovskoĭ premii 2019 goda i stavshiĭ odnoĭ iz luchshikh knig goda po versii zhurnala Time.Khitroumnyĭ idalʹgo Don Kikhot Lamanchskiĭ stranstvoval po dorogam Ispanii v 17 veke - togda, kogda zhil ego sozdatelʹ, velichaĭshiĭ ispanskiĭ pisatelʹ Migelʹ de Servantes. No chto by stalo s Ryt͡sarem Pechalʹnogo Obraza, esli by emu dovelosʹ roditʹsi͡a v nashi dni? I ne v surovykh zemli͡akh Kastilii, a v Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki? Odin iz samykh znakovykh prozaikov sovremennosti Salman Rushdi predlagaet svoĭ variant otveta na ėtot vopros. Ego geroĭ, pisatelʹ sredneĭ ruki Sėm Di͡ushan, prevrashchaet svoego 'Alonso Kikhano' (a imenno tak zvali geroi͡a Servantesa na samom dele) - v pozhilogo torgovt͡sa Kishota, do umopomrachenii͡a fanatei͡ushchego ot fiktivnogo mira televidenii͡a. Kak i polozheno, Di͡ushan odarivaet svoego Kishota nedosi͡agaemoĭ vozli͡ublennoĭ, telezvezdoĭ miss Salmoĭ R., a takzhe vydumannym synom po imeni Sancho, s kotorym, sobstvenno, tot i otpravli͡aetsi͡a v polnoe udivitelʹnykh prikli͡ucheniĭ puteshestvie po sovremennoĭ Amerike - Amerike Trampa, bezumnoĭ Amerike pylʹnykh dorog i beskonechnykh vozmozhnosteĭ. I ėto puteshestvie stanovitsi͡a dli͡a Rushdi prekrasnym povodom pogovoritʹ s chitatelem o rasizme, narkomanii, informat͡sionnom musore, semeĭnykh svi͡azi͡akh, kvantovoĭ fizike i mnogom, mnogom drugom

Sam Duchamp, a writer of spy novels, inspired by the immortal masterpiece of Cervantes, invents his Don Quixote — an elderly Kishota merchant, a real fan of television, in love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son, Sancho Quixote embarks on an adventurous journey across America to prove that he is worthy of the favor of his beloved. And its creator, who is experiencing an existential midlife crisis, is going through his own trials. A new novel by the legendary Salman Rushdie, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019 and became one of the best books of the year according to Time magazine.The cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha roamed the roads of Spain in the 17th century, when his creator, the greatest Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, lived. But what would happen to the Knight of the Sad Image if he happened to be born in our days? And not in the harsh lands of Castile, but in the United States of America? Salman Rushdie, one of the most iconic novelists of our time, offers his own version of the answer to this question. His character, a middle–class writer Sam Duchamp, turns his 'Alonso Quijano' (that's what Cervantes' character was really called) into an elderly Kishot merchant, fanatically obsessed with the fictitious world of television. As expected, Duchamp gives his Kishot an unattainable lover, the TV star Miss Salma R., as well as a fictional son named Sancho, with whom, in fact, he embarks on a journey full of amazing adventures through modern America – Trump's America, a crazy America of dusty roads and endless possibilities. And this journey becomes a great opportunity for Rushdie to talk with the reader about racism, drug addiction, information garbage, family ties, quantum physics and much, much more.