Magical realism books from Serbia
Recommended magical realism books (6)
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If you are into magical realism here are some magical realism books from Serbia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic EN
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A failed architect's search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II, becomes a labyrinthine puzzle, inextricably bound to the history of the ancient monastery on Mount Athos.
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The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš EN
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Combining fact and fiction, epic and miniature, horror and comedy, this book tells stories about love and death, truth and lies, myth and reality range across many epochs and settings.
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The Morningside : A Novel by Téa Obreht EN
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“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland “I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions—together more dystopian than any dystopian novel—the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.”—Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers, in The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one ... continue
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The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle) “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly “Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace.”—Time ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times; Entertainment Weekly; The Christi... continue