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Maybe I've been hit too much with South American magic realism, that I thought this was Rushdie's foray in novel form, rather than his journalistic look at the Sandinista and Nicaragua. I actually enjoy Rushdie more in his non-fiction, than his fiction. Again, I don't emotionally connect as well with magic realism that is often in Rushdie's fiction.
The issues of Nicaragua, as Rushdie notes in his afterward, feel dated and more as a sort of a period piece from the Cold War, but that was also its ...more
The issues of Nicaragua, as Rushdie notes in his afterward, feel dated and more as a sort of a period piece from the Cold War, but that was also its ...more
4/B
Provides some good insight about the Sandinistas, but doesn't feel complete.
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Juliana Philippa
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