Chile

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 Acuñntilde;a, Marjorie Agosíiacute;n, Roberto Ampuero, Marta Brunet, Francisco Coloane, Adolfo Couve, Joséeacute; Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Jorge Edwards, Beatriz García-Huidobro, Pedro Lemebel, Patricio Manns, Tito Matamala, Pablo Neruda, Darío Oses, Hernáaacute;n Rivera Letelier, Patricio Riveros Olavarría, Osvaldo Rodríguez Musso, Enrique Valdés, and José Miguel Varas.