Flowering Inferno: Tales of Sinking Hearts
By Costa Rican writer Rima de VallbonaTranslated by Lillian Tagle
ISBN: 0-935480-64-1
Price: $13.00
Pages: 96
The imaginative stories of Flowering Inferno: Tales of Sinking Hearts deal with everything from human fear to spiritual growth. Rima de Vallbona's imagination has created an amazing assortment of female characters: from a spunky 90-year-old grandmother who goes out bowling, to a bride whose expectations of a romantic wedding night end tragically when she is raped by her new husband.
"... de Vallbona's precise language and an able
translation make these pieces sharp and lucid."
--Publishers Weekly
"These extremely brief short stories depict a world of magical realism in which reality grows tenuous.... Intriguing...work from a noted Costa Rican writer." --Los Angeles Times
"With a lyrical voice that is as much at home with a
male narrator as a female narrator, Vallbona excels in her
fiction that continues to linger once the page has been
turned.... Her style is both easy and weighty. She spins
readable tales that demonstrate the universality of the
human condition"
--Scanning the Bookshelf