LIMON REGGAE

After the great success of her previous novel Limon Blues, in which Anacristina Rossi paints an impressive description of the Afrocaribbean style of life using a meticulous historical reconstruction of the final decade of the XIX and beginning of the XX century, where there is a rich portrayal of ancestral rites, music, language and the messianic efforts of the black community, the awaited novel “ Limon Reggae”, the second of a trilogy, is a ainted linen that describes Central America at the end of the XXth century "From her childhood in Limon in the 60`s and 70`s, Laura/ Aisha, main personage, makes contact with the revolutionary movements of the afrolimonese, related to the reivindicative struggles of the Afro-Americans but with Costa Rican Caribbean own style ". This contact had a great impact on her life.

In a style that is captivating and catching from the beginning, the tale takes us from a trepidant history , with Laura/Aisha as principal witness, outlining the search of the utopia in Limon, Costa Rica and Central America and the brutality of certain regimes that appeared to be democracy.

With Laura one enters the revolutionary struggles and the deep passions, the intense loves and dissapointments of the players of that time: turbulent for Central America but also for the Afrocostarricans.

Between the brief moments of happiness and the persistent fight, a rhytim unites them: "reggae, with its slow compass, mysterious backbeat, its silent timing, of power and glory."