{"product_id":"the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey-paperback","title":"The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen previous novels, including \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), \u003ci\u003eShame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuichotte, \u003c\/i\u003e all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eEast, West;\u003c\/i\u003e a memoir, \u003ci\u003eJoseph Anton;\u003c\/i\u003e a work of reportage, \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar Smile;\u003c\/i\u003e and three collections of essays, most recently \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN\/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre ﾉtranger; the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America. His books have been translated into over forty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.02 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757749731616,"sku":"9780812976724","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41da81764463f7c9b141897af2c6f2ea.webp?v=1780110863","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}