Salman Rushdie's second chance life

Salman Rushdie’s 2015 novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, saw the Indian-born British American author take on the role of Scheherazade by spinning numerous fabulous tales and spawning umpteen exotic characters. It was set in New York in an epoch marked by so-called strangenesses where good and evil genies battled, catastrophic disasters raged, and one gardener found himself with the power to levitate. Quichotte (2019), Rushdie’s reinterpretation of Don Quixote, unfolded in “the Age of Anything-Can-Happen”: “A whole nation might jump off a cliff like swarming lemmings. Men who played presidents on TV could become presidents.”