![]() ![]() ![]() Borrowing from both opera and dim memories of Cervantes, he decides to call himself Quichotte, though fake news, the din of television, and “the Age of Anything-Can-Happen” and not dusty medieval romances have made him a little dotty. The old man, who bears the name Ismail Smile, Smile itself being an Americanization of Ismail, is “a brown man in America longing for a brown woman.” He is a dreamer-and not without ambition. An aging salesman loses his job as a pharmaceutical rep, fired, with regret, by his cousin and employer. Mix Rushdie’s last novel, The Golden House (2017), with his 1990 fable, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and you get something approaching this delightful confection. A modern Don Quixote lands in Trumpian America and finds plenty of windmills to tilt at. ![]()
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