The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey - Softcover

Salman-rushdie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099285223 ISBN 13: 9780099285229

Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Synopsis

In this brilliantly focussed 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 revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister - a priest - to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room. His perceptions always heightened by his sensitivity and his unique flair for language, in "The Jaguar Smile", Rushdie brings us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

About this title

About the Author:

Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Review:

"Stirring and original" * New York Times * "A vivid and probing introduction for perplexed outsiders" * Newsday * "Salman Rushdie's extraordinary book...is a masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting, graced with his marvellous wit, quietly assertive style, odd and yet always revealing experiences" -- Edward Said

About this edition

• Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099285223
• ISBN 13: 9780099285229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160