Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life

Foreword by Óscar Arias Sánchez.

Contents:                 

Northern Zone: Believe it or not / Carmen Naranjo -- The girl who came from the moon / José León Sánchez -- Bucho Vargas, healer and medicine man / Mario González Feo -- San José and the Central Valley: The lizard with the white belly / Yolanda Oreamuno -- The chumico tree / Rima de Vallbona -- The targuá tree / Fabin Dobles -- The adventure / Samuel Rovinski -- Monday / Fernando Durán Ayanegui -- Faust in Hatillo / Alfonso Chase -- Guanacaste: Mystery stone / Rima de Vallbona -- Southern Pacific Coast: The bongo / Carlos Salazar Herrera -- She wore a bikini / Alfonso Chase -- Southern Zone: The carbonero / Carlos Salazar Herrera -- Atlantic Zone: The diary / Fabián Dobles -- In the shadow of the banana tree / Carlos Luis Fallas -- The oropéndolas / Quince Duncan -- from Deeper than skin / Abel Pacheco -- The blue fish / Julieta Pinto -- Costa Rica: The spirit of my land / Yolanda Oreamuno -- Ten little old men / Carmen Lyra -- A leaf of air / Joaquin Guitiérrez -- The palmitero / Max Jiménez -- Here / Louis Ducoudray -- We have brought you the sea / Uriel Quesada -- Mint flowers / Alfredo Aguilar -- When new flowers bloomed / Carmen Naranjo.