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Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Vol. 1 »

Book cover image of Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Vol. 1 by Barbara Ras

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)

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Author Biography: Barbara Ras

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Map of Costa Rica
Foreword
Preface
Believe It or Not1
The Girl Who Came from the Moon10
Bucho Vargas, Healer and Medicine Man24
The Lizard with the White Belly30
The Chumico Tree34
The Targua Tree37
The Adventure43
Monday55
Faust in Hatillo63
Mystery Stone73
The Bongo81
She Wore a Bikini85
The Carbonero101
The Diary110
In the Shadow of the Banana Tree121
The Oropendolas134
From Deeper Than Skin136
The Blue Fish147
The Spirit of My Land153
Pastor's Ten Little Old Men157
A Leaf of Air167
The Palmitero191
Here195
We Have Brought You the Sea202
Mint Flowers206
When New Flowers Bloomed214
Glossary221
Contributors226
Translators232

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