Novel that won the 2004 UNA-Word Contest Prize. With a remarkable command of language and narrative techniques, its author creates an atmosphere of the underworld of the rufian and nocturnal San José. The narrator places us in the physical and psycho..

In 1879 a fratricidal war began in which Chile faced Peru and Bolivia for the rich territories where natural nitrate was extracted, a source of great wealth at the end of the 19th century. Luciano Cruz Márquez, a young man from a rural area, joins th..

En 1972 la Editorial Costa Rica fue cuestionada por la presencia de autores comunistas en su catálogo y toma de decisiones. A 13 años de su creación, no era la primera vez. Había pasado también, por ejemplo, en 1960 y 1968. En esta ocasión, la Liga C..

This anthology of contemporary Costa Rican poetry offers the reader a gratifying overview of an important part of this Central American Country’s literature...

The fundamental objective of the book Costa Rican Biographies is to bring together, in a single work, characters who, due to their outstanding activity, deserve to be located and studied, without having to travel a long way...

It is important that today's children have the opportunity to learn about yesterday's legends and create national awareness about the importance of collecting, transmitting and learning about the culture, folklore and traditional history of our count..

In the year 2400, a teenager learns the truth about the scientific experiments that have made “mind transferring” possible. Given the implications of this discovery, Robert will face the mastermind of such an operation: Doctor Victor Stein...

Cure of madness is a text of fantastic stories where the writer Carlos Manuel Villalobos pays tribute to the great exponents of this genre. Here is the imprint of Dostoevsky, Poe, Kafka, Calvino, Cortázar, Borges and many of the universal authors who..