The jaguar smile: a nicaraguan journey

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Sinopse

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.

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Autor: Salman Rushdie

Autor

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Salman Rushdie nasceu em Bombaim, na Índia, em 1947. De família muçulmana liberal e abastada, aos treze anos foi estudar na Inglaterra e lá permaneceu, tendo se tornado súdito britânico. Em 1968 formou-se em história no King's College, em Cambridge. Depois de uma breve carreira como ator, passou a dedicar-se à literatura em 1971. Seu romance Os filhos da meia-noite ganhou o prestigioso Booker Prize (1981), o Booker of Bookers (1993) e o Best of the Booker (2008). Já Os versos satânicos (1988) valeu-lhe o Whitbread Prize e uma sentença de morte, promulgada pelo aiatolá Khomeini.