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In this brilliantly focussed 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 o f 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 ra nge of people, from the foreign minister - a priest - to the midwife w ho kept a pet cow in her living room. His perceptions always heightened by his sensitivity and his unique flair for language, in The Jaguar S mile, Rushdie brings us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, e verything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday oc currence.
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