The Jaguar Smile

Stirring and original * New York Times *A vivid and probing introduction for perplexed outsiders * Newsday *Salman Rushdie’s extraordinary book…is a masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting, graced with his marvellous wit, quietly assertive style, odd and yet always revealing experiences – Edward Said

Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight’s Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor’s Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.