The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

ISBN-13: 9780099285229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000

Salman Rushdie

Opis

Salman Rushdie's visit to Nicaragua in 1986 alerted the writer to a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. The Jaguar Smile highlights the human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.

Recenzje

Stirring and original New York Times

O autorze

Rushdie, Salman Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels - Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize) - and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of non-fiction - Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line - and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.