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There Never Was a Once Upon a Time

By Costa Rican author Carmen Naranjo
Translated by Linda Britt

ISBN: 0-935480-41-2
Price: $11.50
Pages: 96

"A collection of delightful, poignant short stories by one of Costa Rica's major writers which enter into the sometimes magical, sometimes painful world of children or adolescents who are the narrators of the stories. There is a strange mix of magic and reality in their worlds--the harsh seeming realities of life often painfully stumbled upon, but also the beauty and magic of imaginary worlds which adults sadly lose the ability to create."
--British Bulletin of Publications

"Ten brief first-person narrations comprise the collection, each one a lyrical story about children who are also creators, story tellers who face the cruel reality of an exterior world in sharp conflict with their intimate beliefs."
--Hispanic Journal