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Title: Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Barbara Ras, Oscar Arias ISBN: 1-883513-00-6 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Open up the country.....
Comment: The two most invaluable books I read prior to vactioning in Costa Rica were this one, and a social history with magnificent photos called, "Costa Rica: The Last Country the Gods Made."
The funny thing is that they compliment each other almost exactly in their selection of the geographical areas in Costa Rica that they both chose to explore; so you can read the essay, "Travels from the Interior" in "Last Country" then read the corresponding short story set in the highlands of the central plateau in "Literary Companion"!
I read both books alternating back and forth like that....talk about opening up the country before your eyes!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Fleeting Impression
Comment: BEFORE TRAVELLING overseas, I always try and read some literature from the places I'm visiting, so I certainly applaud the spirit of the "Traveler's Literary Companion" series. As there doesn't seem to be much in the way of Costa Rican literature available in translation, this anthology is invaluable. However, I'm afraid I didn't find it as illuminating as the reviewers below. While the idea of grouping the 26 short stories by geographical region sounds like a good idea, in practice, I didn't find regional differences embodied in the stories to be distinctive enough to warant such arrangement. Perhaps a better grouping would have been coastal, inland, mountainous, and urban, I'm not sure. Another possible reason I might not have found the selections very evocative is their length. There are 26 stories by 20 authors (six have two stories in the collection) over 220 pages, so one gets more a sense of vignettes with fleeting impressions than a solid sense of what the people or places are like. The one aspect that does appear in the many of the stories is the importance of nature in Costa Rica, both as a source of beauty and as something to struggle against.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't leave home without it
Comment: A fascinating variety of styles and topics. We especially enjoyed the way the stories are arranged, by region. Sleepy, pick a short story. If you wonder what it might be like to labor with a machete or to live in a small house in the jungle. If you want to know what it might be like to be the only white girl, or the only brown boy. Read this. This book will change the way you see the uniformed schoolchildren, the mysterious round rocks, the lizards... There is more to Costa Rica than identifying birds and eating mangoes.
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Title: The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz, Richard Biesanz, Karen Zubris Biesanz ISBN: 1555877370 Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories by Women Writers from Costa Rica and Panama by Enrique Jaramillo Levi ISBN: 0935480471 Publisher: Latin Amer Literary Review Pr Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica Spanish Phrasebook (Phrasebooks) by Thomas B. Kohnstamm ISBN: 1864501057 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Tropical Nature : Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America by Adrian Forsyth ISBN: 0684187108 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica (Costa Rica, 5th Ed) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 1740591186 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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