Authors: Barbara Ras (Editor), Katherine Silver (Editor), Oscar Arias
ISBN-13: 9781883513009, ISBN-10: 1883513006
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 Rica | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Believe It or Not | 1 | |
The Girl Who Came from the Moon | 10 | |
Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man | 24 | |
The Lizard with the White Belly | 30 | |
The Chumico Tree | 34 | |
The Targua Tree | 37 | |
The Adventure | 43 | |
Monday | 55 | |
Faust in Hatillo | 63 | |
Mystery Stone | 73 | |
The Bongo | 81 | |
She Wore a Bikini | 85 | |
The Carbonero | 101 | |
The Diary | 110 | |
In the Shadow of the Banana Tree | 121 | |
The Oropendolas | 134 | |
From Deeper Than Skin | 136 | |
The Blue Fish | 147 | |
The Spirit of My Land | 153 | |
Pastor's Ten Little Old Men | 157 | |
A Leaf of Air | 167 | |
The Palmitero | 191 | |
Here | 195 | |
We Have Brought You the Sea | 202 | |
Mint Flowers | 206 | |
When New Flowers Bloomed | 214 | |
Glossary | 221 | |
Contributors | 226 | |
Translators | 232 |