![]() There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a traveling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in the yellow light of tawdry motel rooms watching an excess of it, and had suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result. Quichotte is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. ![]() He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. ![]() Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels among which are Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, and The Satanic Verses. ![]() The following is an excerpt from Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. ![]()
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