Chile: A Traveler’s Literary Companion

The twenty stories in Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion -- most of which are available here for the first time in English -- reveal that the nation that gave birth to two poets who won Nobel prizes in literature is also the home of many world-class prose writers. This collection evokes the diversity of the country's landscape and the complexity of its recent history. Contributors include Luis Alberto Acu a, Marjorie Agos n, Roberto Ampuero, Marta Brunet, Francisco Coloane, Adolfo Couve, Jos Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Jorge Edwards, Beatriz Garc a-Huidobro, Pedro Lemebel, Patricio Manns, Tito Matamala, Pablo Neruda, Dar o Oses, Hern n Rivera Letelier, Patricio Riveros Olavarr a, Osvaldo Rodr guez Musso, Enrique Vald s, and Jos Miguel Varas.