Jaguar Smile

Informationen zum Autor Salman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses , and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022. Klappentext Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing . In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Zusammenfassung Presents a portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua. This book brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. It shows us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, and life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Rushdie, Rushdie Salman
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780099285229
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928522-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TRAVEL / Central America, Nicaragua, Travel writing, Social issues & processes, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and ethical issues