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Salman Rushdie (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987) is a book of travel and political observations, written following Salman Rushdie’s visit to Nicaragua in July, 1986, as guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers. Rushdie has also published several short stories; the best known is “The Prophet’s Hair,” which appeared originally in the London Review of Books in 1981 and has been reprinted in The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987). A fable in the style of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,...

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