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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 revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister, a priest, to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room.

Attraversare una frontiera, fare anche un solo passo oltre quella linea immaginaria che segna la fine di un mondo e l'inizio di un altro, significa venire trasformati nel profondo. La frontiera, il limite, il confine risvegliano le nostre coscienze. Sono il luogo in cui non possiamo sfuggire alla verità: ci spogliamo dei panni comodi della nostra esistenza quotidiana che nascondono gli aspetti più brutali della realtà, per osservare le cose come sono.

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British-Indian novelist, essayist, and public intellectual known for his thought-provoking and controversial works that often explore themes of religion, politics, and cultural identity. Born Ahmed Salman Rushdie on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, to a Muslim family, he grew up in a privileged and liberal household. His father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a successful businessman, and his mother, Negin Bhatt, was a teacher. Rushdie's early years were marked by a love for literature and storytelling. He was an avid reader from a young age, devouring books ...