by Zoila Ellis | Belize
Seven short stories vividly depicting different facets of Belize’s reality. From the country’s rural areas to New York City, we accompany Belizean women and men as they go through the joys and hardships of life.
by Oscar Nunez Olivas | Costa Rica
A tale of intrigue and human frailty based on the real story of Costa Rica's first ever case of a serial killer. The author draws upon the details of a notorious unsolved crime that horrified this small country to weave a plot that examines the dilemmas faced by journalists driven by a professional ethic yet living by the rules of the real world.
by Anacristina Rossi | Costa Rica
The book caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which is one of the most biologically diverse sites in the world and supposedly protected by the Costa Rican constitution. The novel is the largely autobiographical account of the author's attempt to save the refuge from destruction.
by Horacio Castellanos Moya | El Salvador
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church to proofread a report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases, the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger―after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.
