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Rushdie, Salman : The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Elisabeth Sifton Books; Viking, New York, 1987

Original publisher's black paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on book spine. Original illustrated paper dust jacket included. Front and back panels of dust jacket show a photograph of silhouetted palm leaves against a dark sky. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2." 171 pages, complete. Dust jacket and pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket has an almost imperceptible chip in the lower-right corner of the front panel. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. An As New book in an As New dust jacket. Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) is a British-Indian writer and novelist who is best-known for his works about relations between Eastern and Western cultures. Many of his writings combine historical fiction with magic realism and are set in India. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey is Salman Rushdie's first full-length nonfiction book. Excerpt from the front flap: "This brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua comes from the pen of our most discerning political journalists--and it comes just in time. The reality of Nicaragua has been all but submerged in a flood of distorting and confusing headlines, but Salman Rushdie's book brings the palpable, human facts of the Nicaraguan experience to the forefront--where they belong. Mr. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in the summer of 1986 not knowing what to expect and having no set views on what to look for. It was a time of great stress: the United States Congress had just voted to give money to the anti-Sandinista forces fighting a guerrilla war against the Nicaraguan government; the International Court of Justice ruled that this was in violation of international law; and the Sandinistas, once pledged to an open society, had shut down the principal opposition paper and jailed many dissidents on the ground that in a state of war these measures were necessary. As el escritor hindu (as the Nicaraguans called him), a 'Third World writer' himself, Mr. Rushdie had a different vantage point on these issues, and on Central American life in general, than the predictable ones of North Americans and Europeans (of both West and East).". Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

1st American Edition

Rushdie, Salman : THE JAGUAR SMILE A Nicaraguan Journey

Viking, New York, 1987

ISBN 0670817570

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 171 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

First American Edition

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