Written in two voices, "Ashes of Izalco" is a collaborative novel by Claribel Alegrfa and Darwin Flakoll, a love story set against the events of 1932 when thirty thousand Indians and peasants were massacred in Izalco, El Salvador. "Ashes of Izalco" brings together a Salvadoran woman and an American man who together struggle over issues of love, loyalty and socio-political injustices.

"Hatful of Tigers" is a collection of poetic essays, reminiscences, and sketches exploring the reality of Central America by one of Latin America's most accomplished writers. This fascinating mosaic is also Ramirez's homage to the narrative's central figure, the world-renowned writer Julio Cortazar, whose commitment to the Nicaraguan revolution served as an inspiration for the Nicaraguan people."

Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an "escape proof" penitentiary, Canto Grande, to free forty-eight political prisoners on July 9, 1990. The prisoners escaped through the tunnel without a single casualty and eluded the authorities. Because of their world-wide reputation as writers of testimony, the authors, Alegria and Flakoll, were invited by MRTA leaders to write the exclusive story of the escape. At no small risk to their own safety, they spent a week in the most hunted-for safehouse in Lima, Peru,...

This collection -- "A brilliant fingerprint of the city of Montevideo" (Eduardo Galeano) -- includes the best of renowned Uruguayan writer Mane Benedetti's stories from over 40 years of publishing. In these stories of powerful sudden impact, Benedetti plumbs with deep psychological insight both the dreams and frustrations of the middle-class in a bureaucratic society, as well as the pain and disorientation of political exile. In his On Arts And Professions, Benedetti wrote, "the effect of the short story is the surprise, the astonishment, the revelation."