"Lobo, a Chilean who for all literary intents and purposes is Costa Rican, is also the author of the well-received Asalto al paraíso (1992). The three parts of Calypso, a light-hearted novel, center on the precarious love affairs of Amanda, Eudora, and Matilda. Their lives offer an opportunity to portray the unheralded and ignored diversity of Costa Rican culture, and above all, its rhythm. There are memorable characters like 'El Africano' in the first part, who may be 'El Zambo's' double in the last part. Magic realism, marijuana, and Bob Marley's music, as well as the characters' hippie-like wanderings in Central America, make this an enjoyable if not committed novel"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew's descendants, who revere her like a saint. She travels the ship with the Calypso's creator, the enigmatic Sigmund, and Catherine, a bioengineered marvel who can commune with the plants, uncovering a new history of humanity forged while she slept. She discovers a legacy of war between botanists and engineers. A war fought for the right to build a new Earth - a technological paradise, or a new Eden in bloom, untouched by mankind's past. And Rochelle, the last to wake, holds the balance of power in her hands." --

Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

Calypso es una pintoresca isla del Caribe, Benclecide por su tranquilidad y hermosos paisajes. Alli viven las hermanas Margarita, que resaltan por su inigualable belieza, la mas joven llamada "La Bella" y la mayor "La Grade". A pesar de su gran atractivo, las dos hermanas tienen sus corazones rotos. El prometido de la mayor murio tragicamente en el mar, y el novio de la menor se va de la isla para siempre.