With the perspective of a great novelist, Salman Rushdie tells us about the magic of Nicaragua.

"When I traveled to Nicaragua, I had no intention of writing a book about it or writing at all; yet the encounter with the country moved me so deeply that I had no other choice." When Salman Rushdie visited Nicaragua in 1986, he was overwhelmed: by the people and their culture, by the beauty of nature, but also by the complicated political situation. He finds a country in the midst of transformation - a deeply contradictory yet beautiful land, whose magic the storyteller Rushdie captures with his own unique language.

A great author travels through a country in transition. "Rushdie shows us the country in its vividly bright colors.".