Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte (2019), inspired by Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is his second recent novel, after Golden House (2017), which deals satirically with the maladies of post-Trump United States and the growing hatred, division, and xenophobia across the world. Quichotte is a variegated, prismatic, and metafictional text, in which the Pan-American journey of Ismail Smile, a traveling salesman who adopts the name Quichotte, the protagonist of a novel being written by Sam DuChamp, becomes the site of magic realist phenomena that engages with the ethical crises of our time. Just as Cervantes’ protagonist, fixated as he is on chivalric romances, tilts at the windmills, believing them to be monsters of some kind, Rushdie’s Quichotte too, failing to distinguish between reality and televised shows, embarks on an impossible quest to win the love of Salma R., one of the iconic celebrities of the American television world. Just as Cervantes’ Don had a squire, Quichotte has an adolescent son, who appears miraculously to him on the passenger seat of his car on the night of a meteor shower, like a parodic reconstruction of the Immaculate Conception. He becomes Quichotte’s companion in his fabulous journey, only to encounter a series of adversities. Together, they experience various shades of xenophobia, racist hatred, and brazen intolerance.