by Salman Rushdie · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424415
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«La sonrisa del jaguar: Un viaje a Nicaragua» is Salman Rushdie's travel chronicle, published by Alfaguara in paperback (166 pages, in Spanish).
In 1986, Salman Rushdie traveled to Nicaragua, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution, and turned the journey into this chronicle. Rushdie talks with politicians, intellectuals, peasants and soldiers to portray a country full of contradictions, where heroes become objects, leaders and guerrillas are poets, and history clashes with morality.
Translation by Barbara McShane and Javier Alfaya. Originally published as «The Jaguar Smile»; Línea Abierta collection no. 3.
For readers of travel literature and recent Central American history, especially the Sandinista period.
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.
