Full name: The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Author: Salman Rushdie Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, History, Non Fiction, Politics, Memoirs, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312422783 9780812976724 0312422784 081297672X

Salman 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. Similar books: The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart Travels by Michael Crichton At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Golden Gelman What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin So Many Enemies, So Little Time by Elinor Burkett Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd River of Time by Jon Swain To End a War by Richard Holbrooke We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie Farewell, Fred Voodoo by Amy Wilentz The Devil Came on Horseback by Brian Steidle The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski