It´s funny how things work in the
book-world. Specially here in Nicaragua; you open your tiny little shop,
struggle to get books in a country where there are almost none, sell a few
books a day, try to make things go around, try new things, work hard, do some
small scale promotion...
And then suddenly one day something big happens. I open the facebook
page for the bookshop and see a casual message from Stephen Kinzer on the wall. STEPHEN KINZER! If you are not familiar with who Stephen Kinzer is, he is
the author of "Blood of Brothers - life and war in Nicaragua", a
foreign correspondent who covered Nicaragua in the 70s and 80s. And if you are
a bookshop owner in Nicaragua you LOVE Stephen Kinzer because he has written
one of the bestselling books in english about Nicaragua, a well written and
balanced book about the revolution and war in Nicaragua, the easiest book to
recommend to anyone interested in Nicaragua. So then you understand that to get
this short casual message on facebook is maybe one of the biggest things that
will ever happen to my tiny little bookshop in León. 