The widow of an influential man in 19th century Costa Rica, directs her house, her businesses and the research she hires a character unusual, relative to the execution of General José María Cañas. The reasons are barely suggested and the intrigues of powercoexist with the love and personal stories of a young filibuster and his Costa Rican girlfriend. This novel by Emilia Macaya shares the characteristics of a novel historical, detective, fantastic and love, with a literary quality that holds the reader in permanent interest. Work called to endure in the Costa Rican culture...

Otto Vargas, uno de los más grandes maestros de la música popular costarricense, del silencioso hijo de Alajuelita que compartió escenario con la Billo’s Caracas Boys, el Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, la Sonora Santanera, Rafael de España, Alberto Cortez, Eva Garza, Sandro de América…..

Premio Universidad Nacional 2023Elena relaciona lo acontecido hace más de tres mil años con lo que sucede en el mundo actual. Advierte que las peores trampas se esconden en formas disimuladas, como la estatua de madera que provocó la destrucción de Troya, la legendaria ciudad de sus antepasados. Por eso recomienda acatar el único mandamiento de su pueblo: No dejarse engañar por la yegua de Troya...

Los leños vivientes es una versión novelada de los acontecimientos sociales y políticos que giran alrededor de la Guerra Civil que ocurrió en Costa Rica en el año 1948. Este suceso histórico polarizó al país y desencadenó una serie de represalias hacia quienes defendían los intereses de la clase trabajadora y, en particular, las Garantías Sociales promulgadas unos años antes. La pluma de Fabián Dobles narra desde diversos puntos de vista las situaciones que vivían los hombres y las mujeres de los sectores populares y marginales en aquella época. En la novela desfila una polifonía de voces que da cuenta, por medio de técnicas narrativas vanguardistas, de historias fabuladas y sucesos reales ocurridos antes y después de aquellos días que ensombrecieron la vida nacional. Los leños vivientes presenta un panorama de los diversos estratos sociales y de algunas regiones geográficas del país en las que se desenvuelven personajes de distinta índole, sobre todo quienes han sido recluidos y también marginados, y luchan por la justicia y trabajan solidariamente por alcanzar una vida digna...

Cuando su abuelo desaparece, Sagan emprende una peligrosa travesía para hallarlo. En su misión, Sagan descubre un terrible secreto familiar, y se arriesga a encontrar la verdadera y escalofriante razón por la cual quedó muda y amnésica cuando era pequeña.@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-469750017 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}..

Salt trail is the new novel by the writer Arabella Salaverry, who has twice received the National Prize for Literature, leads us through parallel processes: the meticulous construction of four female identities from their little joys, their pains, their tormented intensities; and the construction of a town, the Puerto del Limón and the railroad to the Atlantic. True to her vibrant style, the writer offers us this proposal with a careful language to gradually weave the profiles of the characters and their struggles to conquer their space, immersed in the exuberance of a Caribbean that surrounds them and sometimes drowns them. . A Caribbean that beats with all the vehemence of him, vigorous characters, a Manila shawl and a mandate are mixed in the fervent proposal of Rastro de sal...

Each story in this book, despite maintaining its own identity, proposes an interconnection, a thin, almost imperceptible thread through the lives of its protagonists. From Nirú to Sara, from ancient times to the most challenging futuristic technology, they jealously guard the existence of a supposed brotherhood that has been present since the beginning of time. Perhaps, without intending to, they will find the answer to the most basic and persistent question of their genre or, perhaps, they will simply forget it in time. They are the "Daughters of the Blood Sun"; women marked by supernatural events and elements that have built their identity, their perspective in the face of pain, fear, courage and death. "She was in another dimension. There were others like her, many others. She stopped being herself and was many women in one. She could not understand how, but she felt it and understood everything, each one of them, each story, each feeling. , each emotion. She was Nirú, Alira, Ana, Claudia, each one of them and all at the same time. All fused in the same soul "...

“My first visit to the gynecologist took place the day the first images of the Mars Pathfinder mission came to light, a fact that I remember because while Mom and the nurse went out to look at unpublished photos of the Martian surface on TV behind the curtain, I appreciated, on the monitor next to me, the no less unpublished portrait of my cervix and I had the feeling that there was an equally unknown world deep in my pelvic cavity ”. The Woman Who Would Come Monday collects three stories of humor and tragedy. Rastafarians, gringo surfers, angelologists and mermaids parade through its pages stranded in the Pacific of Costa Rica, where a decrepit Clint Eastwood visited. His characters seem suspiciously common to us, typical existences where nothing happens until that moment when everything takes a turn and, on the brink of the abyss –as it happens in life– they end up laughing at themselves...

«The breeze carries the smell of thyme. Wild land south of Crete. We are attracted to an ageless old man sitting on a rock, his skin dry as the ground where he rests his feet. He looks at us and turns towards the coast. He only says two words accompanied by a gesture, embracing the distance: the sea, the sea, thálassa, thálassa. He is subdued. He subdues us. «The least complicated challenge in San Luis de Acosta is to go down five almost vertical kilometers from the El Resbalón slope to a second bridge: if the reader imagines that a small stop at the bar Viagra, next to the road, will sustain Before San Luis, I am not the one who wants to disabuse him; and even less if with that small detour he manages to climb the remaining eleven kilometers, until he returns to San Luis. Right there, the El Polvazal bar will have the pleasure of receiving you as you no longer step on the ground of this town so well endowed with names, so that you can recover the lost calories. But one thing is for sure: what the bar Viagra does not provide, El Polvazal does not provide...

Sir Francis Drake, the famous English privateer, sailed in the southern waters of present-day Costa Rica during his voyage of circumnavigation of the planet. The author handles two parallel stories, that of the corsair and that of the indigenous shaman Guasari, who at one point intersect on Caño Island. Guasari, an indigenous woman from the South of Costa Rica, was chosen as a child to become a shaman. During her adulthood she mastered her abilities in healing so well that she was selected as Awá from the Island of the Thousand Springs (Isla del Caño). Francis Drake starts out in the slave trade, which he steals in Africa and sells in America. Queen Elizabeth of England grants him a corsair license, thus managing to circumnavigate the globe. After their meeting in Isla del Caño, their lives continue, but by totally unexpected directions and fortunes...