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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Salman Rushdie

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Completed on 17 August 2022
ISBN : 9780099285229

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 

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Great book and highly recommended. Salman Rushdie highlights the tangible human facts of a nation in the throes of revolution in this sharply focused and melancholy depiction of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. In 1986, Rushdie visited Nicaragua. What he found was shocking: a land of challenging, frequently beautiful paradoxes, weird heroes, and poet-warriors. From the foreign minister to a priest to a midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room, Rushdie got to know a wide variety of characters. Rushdie's views are always sharpened by his sensitivity and his distinctive way with words, and in The Jaguar Smile, he captures the essence of Nicaragua, where nothing is straightforward, everything is contested, and life-or-death fights are commonplace.

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