Author: Eduardo Rios Lasso

Eduardo Rios Lasso brings his experience as a Panamanian physician and traveler to coming-of-age fiction. SANTIAGO Chronicles of a Young Traveler follows a twenty-six-year-old law graduate who has saved for a journey around the world while struggling with anxiety about leaving familiar ground. His itinerary passes through New York, Lisbon, Paris, Sarajevo, Istanbul, and Bali. Laura, his closest friend, remains an emotional point of return while confronting a grave illness at home. Zibarna Books brought the story to readers during 2022. Rios Lasso's experience visiting many countries contributes breadth to the settings, yet the journey is never presented as effortless escape. Missed expectations, unfamiliar customs, practical uncertainty, and encounters with other people gradually change Santiago's understanding of courage. The travel-fiction framework therefore serves two linked movements: outward across cities and cultures, and inward toward a clearer sense of responsibility, friendship, and the relationship he may have been avoiding.