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The Jaguar Smile. 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 ...
Books. The Jaguar Smile. Salman Rushdie. Knopf Canada, Dec 22, 2010 - Travel - 160 pages. “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 ...
16 feb 2011 · 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 ...
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The Jaguar smile : a Nicaraguan journey by Rushdie, Salman, 1947-Publication date 1989 Topics Nicaragua Social conditions Publisher Oxford : Clio Press Collection
The Jaguar Smile also reminds us of the murderous policies of Ronald and Ollie. Sadly Ortega is back in power and proving little better than that corrupt US duo. But the Jaguar Smile is more valuable for its art than its dated politics. Enjoy it for what it is - a minor masterpiece of travel writing - too often a mediocre genre.
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