The jaguar smile

Name: The jaguar smile
Rating: 3.7933333333333334 (150 reviews)
Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780670817573

by Salman Rushdie

3.8

(150 ratings)

568 pages1988VikingISBN 9780670817573

Classics FantasyaudiobookLiterature FictionMagical RealismViolenceDeathIllnesssexismRacismMurderSexual contentIslamophobiasuicideControversyCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentLoveable CharactersDiverse CharactersFictionFamilyTravelGeneralDomestic fictionAeroplane crash survivalEast IndiansDidactic fictionsadCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse Charactersmysterious

AdventurouschallengingemotionalreflectivemediumdarkfunnyinformativereflectiveemotionalchallengingAdventurousslowdarkfunnyreflective

About this book

By the author of M̀idnight's children.' Two men miraculously survive an explosion in a hijacked jumbo jet, only to discover they have been chosen as protagonists in the eternal battle between God and the Devil.

Publication Details

Publisher: Viking
Published: 1988
Pages: 568
ISBN: 9780670817573
Language: en

About Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 in Bombay to a Kashmiri family. He won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.