Salman Rushdie

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Quichotte

Beschreibung

An ageing travelling salesman who loves television sets out to make a more real connection, imagining into being a son and heading off across America by Chevrolet to convince the salesman's love interest of his determination and valour. A playful inversion of "Don Quixote" from the author of "Midnight's Children".

Autor

Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight's Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses , Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 748694
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9781529111989
• ISBN-10: 1529111986
• Artikelnr.: 59367975