The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

The Jaguar Smile : A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1987] ELISABETH SIFTING BOOKS / VIKING

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Some very light wear to DJ.  Book has publishers mark on text block; otherwise excellent. 

Salman 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 morality, government and individuals.