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Salman Rushdie's latest novel 'Quichotte' was listed for the Booker Prize 2019. Getty Images
Salman Rushdie's latest novel 'Quichotte' was listed for the Booker Prize 2019. Getty Images
'Quichotte': why Salman Rushdie's retelling of 'Don Quixote' deserves its place on the Booker Prize shortlist
Salman Rushdie’s take on Cervantes’s epic is the writer's finest work in years
Malcolm Forbes
19 September, 2019