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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

by Salman Rushdie

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kidzdoc in Club Read 2010 : cwc790411 in 2010 (Yesterday, 9:20pm)

Christopher: I'm now pretty sure that I read The Jaguar Smile a couple of years ago, based on its subject. The fact that I can't remember much about it, other that it is set in Nicaragua and that it reads like a travelogue and a political commentary, probably indicates how (not) memorable a book ...

cwc790411 in Club Read 2010 : cwc790411 in 2010 (Yesterday, 6:56pm)

... should definitely read it for some great fictional portraits of people like Mingus, Duke, etc. Are you familiar with The Jaguar Smile? Seems like an unusual entry in Rushdie's catalog.

kidzdoc in Club Read 2010 : cwc790411 in 2010 (Yesterday, 10:18am)

... hear Billie Holiday's aching rendition of that song from Lady in Satin now. I'll look forward to your review of The Jaguar Smile, in particular.

cwc790411 in Club Read 2010 : cwc790411 in 2010 (Yesterday, 7:33am)

Three more books I intend to read in the early part of the year: Salman Rushdie's book on Nicaragua The Jaguar Smile as a colleague lent it to me, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square as an English friend has been praising it for months and Edmund Gosse's Father and Son. I first heard about ...

kidzdoc in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 July 2008 (Jul 11, 2008, 11:07am)

... reading Born Yesterday: The News as Novel by Gordon Burn, but put it down after 75 pages. I'm currently reading The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie and Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago.

kidzdoc in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: June. 2008 (Jun 25, 2008, 7:47pm)

... Palestinian Lives by Eric Hazan 2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 3. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino 4. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie 5. Wrack and Ruin by Don Lee (advance copy, only cost $1) 6. Markings by Dag Hammarskjold

vpfluke in Reading Globally : Nicaraguan Literature (Jan 4, 2008, 4:46pm)

I did a tagmash on Nicaragua, ficition and came up with: Animal dreams : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver The jaguar smile : a Nicaraguan journey by Salman Rushdie The inhabited woman by Gioconda Belli My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn Tales of a Female Nomad: Livi ...

DeusXMachina in Reading Globally : Nicaraguan Literature (Jan 3, 2008, 2:36pm)

... Unfortunately I don't know of any literature originated in Nicaragua, but I found Salman Rushdie's travelogue The Jaguar Smile about a journey through N. in 1986 quite interesting.

Condor in Travel and Exploration literature : South America (Jun 26, 2007, 12:04pm)

Two books written by non-South Americans that spring to mind: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (a personal favourite) The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie Btw, in my biased opinion I think Chile should not be missed in your travels... By a South American, I ...

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