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 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
