The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
160 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1987
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ISBN: 9780312422783
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 1 September 2003
Description
Salman 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.
