The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey image
ISBN-10:

0099285223

ISBN-13:

9780099285229

Author(s): Salman, Rushdie
Released: Jan 01, 2000
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
to view more data

Description:

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.












We're an Amazon Associate. We earn from qualifying purchases at Amazon and all stores listed here.