![]() He lives in the present, or what Rushdie calls the age of “Anything-Can-Happen,” a time when it “was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections.” Miss Salma R. Quichotte is introduced as a 70-year-old man of “retreating mental powers” suffering from brain damage caused by watching too much television. Throughout, Rushdie offers his hallmark social criticism. The two stories bounce off each other in delightful ways, often matching each other character-for-character before finally interweaving in a blockbuster ending that feels earned, if not quite real. ![]() And the man writing his story, pen name Sam DuChamp, who has written only “modestly (un)successful” spy novels until he conceives Quichotte.Quichotte’s quest to meet and live happily ever after with Miss Salma R., the aforementioned talk-show host of Indian origin. ![]()
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