[Traveler's Literary Companion 01] • Costa Rica

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 Durin Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan, Fabiin Dobles, Louis Ducoudray, Carlos Luis Fallas, Mario Gonziles Feo, Joaqu n Guti(r)rrez, Carlos Salazar Herrera, Max Jim(r)nez, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Naranjo, Yolanda Oreamuno, Abel Pacheco, Julieta Pinto, Uriel Quesada, Samuel Rovinski, Jos(r) Len Sinchez, and Rima de Vallbona."