Book description
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.
Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short
stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of
The Vintage
Book of Indian Writing
. In 1993
Midnight's Children
was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the
Booker Prize in its forty year history.
The Moor's Last Sigh
won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion
Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
