| The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey Contributor(s): Rushdie, Salman (Author) |
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ISBN: 081297672X ISBN-13: 9780812976724 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Central America - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008271736 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.28" W x 8.02" (0.31 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of "a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation and destruction were in violent collision." Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America's behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals, history and morality. |