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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration



My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

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ISBN13: 9780330299909
ISBN10: 0330299905
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In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.

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. With a new preface by the author.

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ISBN:
9780330299909
Subtitle:
A Nicaraguan Journey
Publisher:
Pan Books in association with J. Cape
Location:
London :
Subject:
Nicaragua
Subject:
Nicaragua Description and travel.
Publication Date:
1987
Pages:
171

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