Recognizing this young man as his divinely granted son, Quichotte names him “Sancho.”įinally, we are introduced to Dr.
A young man-visible only in black-and-white like an old television image-appears in the passenger seat. As he drives across Arizona, Quichotte spots a shooting star and makes a wish: that he might have a son. He begins sending Salma letters, signed “Quichotte,” and after a while, he takes his fantasy a step further, deciding that he has a divine mandate to rename himself Quichotte and set off in his Chevrolet to win Salma’s heart. Considering how to approach “the matter of wooing a great lady,” Ismail ponders “the classics,” such as ABC’s 196os show The Dating Game. After suffering a stroke, he becomes obsessed with daytime television and develops an infatuation for Salma R, a former Bollywood actress-also from Bombay-who now hosts a talk show in New York. Ismail is nearly seventy years old, unmarried, and childless. Bombay-born Ismail Smile works as a traveling salesman for Smile Pharmaceuticals, a company owned by his cousin, Dr. Quichotte was nominated for the 2019 Booker Prize. This narrative is embedded in the meta-fictional story of Sam DuChamp, the writer who is inventing Smile’s story. Quichotte (2019), a novel by British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, follows Ismail Smile, a senile pharmaceutical salesman as he sets off on a Don Quixote-inspired quest to win the heart of a television personality.
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