Fiction
Magical Realism to Get Lost In
Where the everyday and the impossible share a page.
14 books · ranked
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of one family in a town where the magical is everyday; the defining novel of magical realism.
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Like Water for Chocolate
A young woman pours her forbidden love into her cooking, with magical results; sensual and bittersweet.
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The Night Circus
A magical competition staged inside a circus that appears only at night; atmospheric and gorgeously imagined.
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All the Crooked Saints
Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, s
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Hadriana dans tous mes rêves
"Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning o
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Instant Karma
Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out
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Konrad Klapheck
Konrad Klapheck (Düsseldorf 1935) is one of the most important personalities of post-war German art history. In 1955, as an art student, he made his first still life, a magical realistic painting of a
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Little, Big
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
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Magical realism and the postcolonial novel
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence reinterprets the origins and nature of one of the most recognisable and important genres of twentieth century literature. Warn
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Mothers and other clowns
"This is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothe
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Other Birds
Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning old cobble
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Sister Mine
SISTER MINE We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. She'd never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twin
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Sudden Traveler
"The characters in Sudden Traveler walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mo
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The Bravest Princess
Sleeping Beauty's younger, non-magical sister, Annie, still can't rest while trouble in the kingdom threatens her good friend, Snow White. Snow White's evil stepmother has disappeared, and her father