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“I didn't visit Nicaragua planning to write a book, or, certainly, to write at all: but my experience with the area influenced me so seriously that ultimately I'd no choice.” Therefore notices Salman Rushdie in his first work of non-fiction, a book as inventive and significant as his acclaimed books. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie offers a superbly well-defined and haunting portrait of the folks, the politics, the landscape, and the composition of “a region where the historic, other forces of creation and destruction were in chaotic collision.” Recounting his moves therein 1986, while in the middle of America’s behind-the-scenes battle from the Sandinistas, Rushdie shows a region definite for the issues between government and persons, background and morality.