The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman RushdieSalman 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

and bring down the Silver regime

she chose the wrong life

an extraordinary hunter

as a mother of a two desperately trying to practise for the audition of a lifetime

and published a successful novel

But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family

and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights

From his celebrated play

This extraordinary memoir is Joe Simpson's attempt to find catharsis and some explanation for the urge he felt since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown

Separated by more than 30 years

she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess

He wasn't meant to die