The Jaguar Smile, Salman Rushdie
The Jaguar Smile, Salman Rushdie
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The Jaguar Smile
A Nicaraguan Journey

Author: Salman Rushdie

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/01/2016


Synopsis

"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of "a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation and destruction were in violent collision." Recounting his travels there in 1986, in the midst of America's behind-the-scenes war against the Sandinistas, Rushdie reveals a nation resounding to the clashes between government and individuals, history and morality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 22, 2020

This was an interesting book by Rushdie about his travels to Sandinista-run Nicaragua in 1986 shortly after finishing Satanic Verses. It is an insiders look at this short-lived period of history that eventually led to the Noriega dictatorship and bloodshed. Not an essential part of his canon, it is......more

Goodreads review by Harun on May 13, 2023

3.5/5 "নিকারাগুয়ায়" তিনি বলেন,"প্রত্যেককেই কবি বলে বিবেচনা করা হয়, উল্টোটি প্রমাণিত না হওয়া পর্যন্ত।" এই কবিদের দেশে সালমান রুশদি ভ্রমণ করেছিলেন ১৯৮৬ সালে, সমাজতন্ত্রী সান্দিনিস্তা বিপ্লবীদের চূড়ান্ত বিজয়ের সপ্তম বর্ষপূর্তিতে। যে দেশটির জীবিতদের বোঝার জন্য, লেখকের মনে হয়েছিলো, মৃতদের দিয়ে শুর......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on March 31, 2020

Nicaragua, July 1986 - Rushdie's first nonfiction endeavor is my first Rushdie read. I can see why Christopher Hitchens liked him. In some ways, Rushdie reminds me of Hitchens. They're both well read, articulate, and can admire a thing while simultaneously being critical of it. Here, true to form, R......more