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The Jaguar Smile: Nicaraguan Journey Book

Paperback. Pub a Date: 2007 Pages: 160 Publisher: Vintage In this illiantly focussed and haunting portrait of the people of the politics. The land and the poetry of Nicaragua. Salman Rushdie-ings 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 ings us the true Nicaragua. where nothing is simple. everything is contested. and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.Read More

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  • Foyles

    An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight’s Children.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 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.‘Stirring and original’ New York Times‘A masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting’ Edward Said

  • Waterstones

    Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, every

  • 0099285223
  • 9780099285229
  • Salman Rushdie
  • 1 March 2007
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
  • New edition
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