Un señor de chocolate

"Duncan is one of the best known Costa Rican writers from the Caribbean coast, a section of the continent that is less known and written about in fiction or poetry. Full of bittersweet humor and colloquialisms, this is a delightful, and frequently tragic, autobiographical text. Duncan recreates anecdotally his life as a black man in his country and in his travels, encountering subtle racism at almost every step"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.