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This is Byron Salas' second short story collection, the readers will find in these pages the author's literary talent in all its glory: stories about forbidden love, anguish, human relationships touched by the hardships of cruelty, pain and social obstacles find in these pages their full display.

Pocas cosas se agradecen más en la literatura que el surgimiento de una nueva voz. Y es precisamente eso lo que el lector encuentra en las páginas de esta la primera novela de Ariana Harwicz, augurio de lo que pronto llegaría a convertirse en su inconfundible estilo. La voz Harwicz, feroz, despiadada, valiente, exhibe aquí su virtuosismo mientras arrasa, a fuerza de frases que parecen huracanes, con nuestros prejuicios sobre lo que significa e...

Con el díptico de Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas, Roberto Arlt (Argentina, 1900-1942), inaugura en la literatura latinoamericana un nuevo espacio de conflicto: la ciudad moderna, tan opresiva como multiforme, barroca en su iluminación de intensas luces y profundas sombras, "infierno -según escribe la eminente crítica Beatriz Sarlo-, espacio del crimen y las aberraciones morales, opuesta a la naturaleza, laberinto tecnológico". Dentro de ese c...

Con el díptico de Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas, Roberto Arlt (Argentina, 1900-1942), inaugura en la literatura latinoamericana un nuevo espacio de conflicto: la ciudad moderna, tan opresiva como multiforme, barroca en su iluminación de intensas luces y profundas sombras, "infierno -según escribe la eminente crítica Beatriz Sarlo-, espacio del crimen y las aberraciones morales, opuesta a la naturaleza, laberinto tecnológico". Dentro de ese c...

En París, vísperas de Navidad, el comisario Morvan observa desde su oficina las calles iluminadas y el cielo que presagia "nieve inminente". Lo agobia un asesino insondable que carga encima veintisiete muertes y un sueño en el que se yergue una ciudad enrarecida. En Santa Fe, Argentina, Pichón Garay -llegado de París en una visita que tiene como excusa el examen de un manuscrito misterioso y como motivo soterrado el encuentro con los parajes q...

Ya sé por qué la actuación no termina de ser una profesión para mí", medita la protagonista de La piel dura, esta desopilante y tenebrosa novela de Fernanda García Lao, y remata: "me entrego tanto que mi cuerpo no entiende si hay realidad o no". Asistimos, de esa manera, a una performance permanente, a una obra de teatro que también es un programa de televisión y una película clase B de terror, en los que Violeta, esta aspirante a actriz, busc...

Si la escritura es un misterio, la reflexión acerca de ese acto insondable es fascinación, y para ella se requiere de lucidez y de una forma única de desdoblamiento. Rodrigo Soto (Costa Rica, 1962), uno de los más grandes narradores de su generación, emprende la historia personal de ese acto primigenio de escritura con humor, sagacidad y, sobre todo, con la certeza de que meditar sobre lo escrito siempre es escribir de nuevo, crear de nuevo.

About the story: Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman is two prisoners, Luis Molina and Valentín Arregui, share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. The story takes place between September 9, 1975 and October 8, 1975. Molina, an effeminate gay window-dresser, is in jail for "corruption of a minor", while Valentín is a political prisoner who is part of a revolutionary group trying to overthrow the government. The two men, seemingly ...

At a party, Lucina leans down to pick up her insulin syringe when she notices a thin thread of blood invading her eye. These hemorrhages will leave her blind, permanently or temporarily it is not known. She will be faced with darkness, helplesness and a return to Chile from New York and to her parents house, to everything she had fled, and this will lead her down the path of cruelty, and finally hatred. Sangre en el ojo won the 2012 Sor Juana ...

Mercurio en primavera es la historia de la evasion de dos jovenes, a traves del vicio, la voluptuosidad y la transgresion, del infierno grande del tipico pueblo pequeno latinoamericano. Con su vocacion de cuestionamiento moral y un estilo particular y barroco, esta es la primera novela del autor costarricense Byron Salas.

Rodrigo Soto, one of Costa Rica's prominent novelists takes on the dark side of touristic development in developing countries. The young journalist Sylvia Moran takes on two investigations, one about the murder of a dutch tourist visiting Costa Rica at the hands of two local youths, the other related to terrorist atacks by a separatist movement aiming at the independence of the crown of Costa Rica's tourism industry. What she will discover is ...

Short road novel by one of Costa Rica¿s most acclaimed young poets, Luis Chaves. From the back cover / De la contratapa: Años después de un viaje por carretera queda apenas un puñado de imágenes borrosas: hoteles de paso, baños en estaciones de servicio, espejos retrovisores, la radio, el asfalto desfigurado por la velocidad, diapositivas que se proyectan sobre lo oscuro de la memoria. Envolviendo estas imágenes, invisible y ubicua como el ...

A novel in Spanish by Costa Rica novelist Catalina Murillo about the relationship of a freshman college girl coming of age and a fortysomething artisan. Things are not what they appear in this tale of twisted romance, unfulfilled expectations and veiled sadism. Critics consider this a novel of female empowerment, symbolizing the struggle of young women to stand on their own two feet in a male dominated latinamerican society.

From the back cover: This is legendary costarican author Alexander Obando first collection of short fiction. It contains pieces from 1987 to 2012. These stories weave terrifying landscapes from strands of the fantastic, dreamlike, hallucinatory or sordidly real. Sex and violence are, as is usual in Obando's ouvre, roads to a usually painful personal illumination. His imagination knows no bounds: shrinking houses, child murderers, cosmogonic my...

Miscelaneous literary essays originally published by renowned Costarrican poet Luis Chaves in periodicals, online media or as prefaces to books by others. Contains the complete collected non-fiction writings of Luis Chaves up to 2010.

Short stories in spanish by Costa Rica award winning author Heriberto Rodríguez. Literary fiction focused on broken romantic relationships and travelling.

Heterocity¿s fictional exploration of the same-sex marriage legalization situation in centralamerica was awarded the Mario Monteforte Toledo centralamerican novel prize for 2011. The novel fans out into multiple aspects of the problem with equal measures of selfassurance, erudition and elegant prose, developing the social, personal, political, religious ramifications of the fight for equal rights undertaken by sexual minorities and the LGBT co...

This tome includes the two novellas which were awarded the first CCE Short Novel Prize 2011. Breves en el tiempo makes successfully parallels the main character work in digital animation and editing and his efforts to recover his past with the woman he loves with humor and a brisk lyrical prose. La paciencia de los insectos is a dense, elaborate exploration of dissociation and altered states of mind of a character stuck in a situation which he...

Combining a lively satirical wit and an pitch-perfect ear for the inflections and nuances of the immigrants' spanglish, the short stories of Juan Dicent, dominican short story writer and poet and newyorker by residence, manage to elicit both rawness and tenderness in their portrayal of latin families building a new world, very much their own, in New York City. Both cultured and streetwise, Dicent's impeccable technique of indirectly illuminat...

Victor Alba de la Vega delves into the postmodernist bag of tricks on his debut novel. Are the characters described in the old man¿s recently discovered papers real? Is his mistress real? In an offbeat blend of erotic lyricism and police procedural, Victor Alba delivers one of Costa Rica¿s strangest, most interesting, tenderest novel to date.