The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Picador Books)

by SalmanRushdie (Author)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $3.28

  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.