The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Picador Books) - Softcover

Rushdie, Salman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330299905 ISBN 13: 9780330299909

Publisher: Picador, 1987

Synopsis

In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians and warriors who were poets; a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. His perceptions always heightened by his special sensitivity to " the views from underneath, " Rushdie reveals a land resounding with the clashes between history and morality, government and individuals. With a new preface by the author.

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Review

"Stirring and original. . .it gives us a picture of the country in bright, patchwork colors unavailable in your usual journalistic dispatches." --"The New York Times""A masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting." --Edward W. Said "A vivid and probing introduction for perplexed outsiders trying to make sense of Nicaraguan dilemmas." --Dan Cryer, "Newsday"

About the Author

Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels--Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction--Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line--and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330299905
• ISBN 13: 9780330299909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176