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.
- ISBN10 0317566032
- ISBN13 9780317566031
- Publish Date 1 March 1987 (first published 30 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Penguin
- Format Hardcover
- Language English