by Salman Rushdie · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401413834
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«La sonrisa del jaguar» is Salman Rushdie's travelogue, published by Plaza & Janés in 1997 in paperback (193 pages, in Spanish).
Rushdie recounts his stay in Nicaragua in 1986, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution. Through conversations, encounters and observations, he portrays a country marked by political tension and everyday life, and interweaves his impressions with a critical reflection on the revolutionary project, its supporters and its contradictions, in a climate of hope and anger.
The English original appeared in 1987 under the title The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey; the Spanish edition is from 1997.
For readers interested in travel literature, the history of Nicaragua and the Sandinista revolution.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions that marked the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
