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Mazunte
Julio Flores debe volver a Costa Rica después de diez años en el extranjero. Su hermana ha desaparecido y se presume muerta en un naufragio cerca de la costa de Mazunte, México. Un año después, Julio decide viajar a este sitio para realizar su propia búsqueda. La novela intercala dos historias y dos tiempos; dos mundos que empiezan a cuestionar la diferenciación nítida entre sueño y realidad, entre el presente y los inciertos depósitos de la memoria. Novela de regreso, de búsqueda y de lucha contra el olvido, Mazunte aspira a esa utopía imposible que llevamos en el inconsciente: la vida que queremos, que quisimos, pero que se desmorona ante lo que ya hemos escogido.
Verano rojo
Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría (Novela, 2010). A veinticinco años de la conjura de La Penca, Daniel Quirós nos ofrece un relato fluido, escrito bajo las claves de la serie negra. Con esta obra, el joven autor nos entusiasma, pues sabe cómo tratar tan seductor tema, a la vez que expone las consecuencias sociales de un mundo sin justicia. El recorrido del detective criollo y su inusual asistente ofrece al lector una nueva imagen del adusto Guanacaste, una región cuya alma y juventud hemos vendido al turismo. El estilo sobrio de Verano rojo acerca la literatura costarricense a las mejores formas de la novela latinoamericana contemporánea.
Lluvia del norte
Ha sido uno de los peores inviernos en Guanacaste; una mañana las nubes se aclaran momentáneamente y, cerca del pueblo de Hernández, aparece asesinado Antonio Rivas, un nicaragüense indocumentado. Se rumora que se trata de un ajuste de cuentas, ya que se encuentra droga junto a su cuerpo. Pero la madre de Antonio no cree que su hijo estuviera involucrado con el narcotráfico, y contrata a don Chepe –protagonista de Verano rojo de Daniel Quirós, novela galardonada con el Premio Aquileo J. Echeverría en el 2010–, para aclarar el crimen.
Pluie des ombres
Costa Rica. Le corps d’un jeune homme est retrouvé, mutilé, au bord d’une route à quelques mètres d’une école. La police en fait peu de cas car c’est un Nica, un immigré du Nicaragua, et il y a de la drogue dans le ventre du cadavre... Ce devait être encore un narcotrafiquant. Sauf que.Sauf que Don Chepe connaissait le garçon, et qu’il n’était certainement pas un dealer. Épaulé de son fidèle Gato, l’ex-guérillero devenu détective à ses heures se lance à la poursuite des coupables. D’orangeraies à d’immenses complexes touristiques, de la prostitution à la haute société, c’est un véritable panorama du Costa Rica que nous révèle ce livre. Levant le voi...
Visible Ruins
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.
Eyes Up!
Let lessons from an expert soccer coach inspire you to lead a richer, more successful life by expanding your vision to take in more of the world around you, and discover deeper purpose and meaning. TJ Kostecky’s Vision Training, a program that has empowered superstar soccer players around the world—including Carli Lloyd, Julie Foudy, and Claudio Reyna—to make smarter decisions by expanding their field of vision, offers critical value to anyone who knows that so many life lessons are learned on the playing field. Kostecky, Head Men's Soccer Coach at Bard College, lays the groundwork for you to shift your lens by focusing on the 5 Ps: Perceive, Process, Plan, Perform, and Persist. With t...
Cicatrices
Cicatrices offers an understanding of the current mood in Central American fiction as writers attempt to come to terms with a collapsing social, political and economic landscape dominated by forced migration, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle to establish fully democratic societies. Writers adopt various narrative strategies to account for this in fictional form, most typically the crime novel cum critical realism and the political thriller, but also a kind of impressionist realism as well as auto-fiction and fictional testimony. Thematic unity is provided by displacement in all its guises and the inability to leave behind a problematic past that bleeds into the present scars tha...
Eté rouge
Côte du Pacifique, Costa Rica. Un Éden où les pinèdes sont massacrées afin de permettre la construction de villas luxueuses pour des investisseurs étrangers... et des caïds de la drogue. Un Éden où il fait terriblement chaud, où l’alcool ne peut faire oublier le sable, la poussière et le vent.C’est là, dans un tranquille village de pêcheurs, qu’est découvert sur la plage le cadavre d’une femme, surnommée l’Argentine.Don Chepe, ancien guérillero qui a lutté aux côtés des sandinistes, décide de retrouver l’assassin de son amie. Une enquête qui le conduit à découvrir les liens obscurs entre passé et présent, utopie et désenchantement... et à revisiter l’histoire de son pays.Entre torpeur et violence, ce livre nous colle à la peau.Été rouge a reçu le prix national de Littérature Aquileo J. Echeverría, la plus haute distinction littéraire du Costa Rica.Daniel Quirós est né en 1979 au Costa Rica. Il enseigne aujourd’hui la littérature espagnole à l’université Lafayette (Pennsylvanie, USA).
Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968
Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the “true” history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical narratives. The initial representations of the events of 1968 were essentially limited to that of the State and that of the Consejo Nacional de Huelga (National Strike Council) and only later incorporated novels and films. Juan J. Rojo examines the manner in which films, posters, testimonios, and the Memorial del 68 expanded the boundaries of those initial articulations to a more democratic representation of key participants in the student movement of 1968.
Transnational Representations
Transnational Representations focuses on a neglected period in Taiwan film scholarship: the golden age of the 1960s and 1970s, which saw innovations in plot, theme and genre as directors highlighted the complexities of Taiwan’s position in the world. Combining a concise overview of Taiwan film history with analysis of representative Taiwan films, the book reveals the internal and external struggles Taiwan experienced in its search for global identity. This cross-disciplinary study adopts a transnational approach which presents Taiwan’s film industry as one that is intertwined with that of mainland China, challenging previous accounts that present the two industries as parallel yet separa...
