Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
by Salman Rushdie

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 a revolution.

Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians and warriors who were poets; a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. His perceptions always heightened by his special sensitivity to "the views from underneath," Rushdie reveals a land resounding with the clashes between history and morality, government and individuals.

"Stirring and original. . .it gives us a picture of the country in bright, patchwork colors unavailable in your usual journalistic dispatches "
--The New York Times

"A masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting. "
--Edward W. Said

"A vivid and probing introduction for perplexed outsiders trying to make sense of Nicaraguan dilemmas. "
--Dan Cryer, Newsday

ZC2784    Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey                    $14.95

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