Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Vol. 1
Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life. Contributors include Alfredo Aguilar, Fernando Durán Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan,...
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Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life. Contributors include Alfredo Aguilar, Fernando Durán Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan, Fabián Dobles, Louis Ducoudray, Carlos Luis Fallas, Mario Gonzáles Feo, Joaquín Gutiérrez, Carlos Salazar Herrera, Max Jiménez, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Naranjo, Yolanda Oreamuno, Abel Pacheco, Julieta Pinto, Uriel Quesada, Samuel Rovinski, José León Sánchez, and Rima de Vallbona.
Map of Costa RicaForewordPrefaceBelieve It or Not1The Girl Who Came from the Moon10Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man24The Lizard with the White Belly30The Chumico Tree34The Targua Tree37The Adventure43Monday55Faust in Hatillo63Mystery Stone73The Bongo81She Wore a Bikini85The Carbonero101The Diary110In the Shadow of the Banana Tree121The Oropendolas134From Deeper Than Skin136The Blue Fish147The Spirit of My Land153Pastor's Ten Little Old Men157A Leaf of Air167The Palmitero191Here195We Have Brought You the Sea202Mint Flowers206When New Flowers Bloomed214Glossary221Contributors226Translators232
