Magical realism genre books (316)


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Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade ES

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Description:
Este libro, hecho Para la cr tica, re ne lecturas contempor neas y originales. Sit a e interpreta la obra de este escritor brasile o a trav s de ensayos de grandes investigadores como: Darcy Ribeiro, Alfredo Bosi, Silviano Santiago, Ra l Antelo, Eneida Mar a de Souza, Haroldo de Campos, H ctor Olea y Pierre Rivas, entre otros. Se incluye en esta edici n un dossier de fotograf as sobre el autor, una cronolog a y una bibliograf a comentada.


123.

Masks by Fumiko Enchi EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. What troubles Ibuki is the curious bond that has grown between Yasuko and her mother-in-law, Mieko, a handsome, cultivated yet jealous woman in her fifties, who is manipulating the relationship between Yasuko and the two men who love her.

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Meister und Margarita by Michail Bulgakow DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
Ohne Frage: Michail Bulgakows Meister und Margarita ist Kult! Schon als der Roman – 26 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors – stark zensiert erstmals in den 60er Jahren erschien, lernten viele seiner Landsleute ihn auswendig; heimlich angefertigte Kopien der herausgestrichenen Stellen kursierten und die verhexte Wohnung Nr. 50 in der Sadowaja – der zentrale Handlungsort des Romans, von dem aus der Teufel namens Woland, der Riesenkater Behemoth und viele andere die Stadt Moskau auf den Kopf stellen – wurde zur Pilgerstätte. Und bis heute ist die Zahl der Verehrer für ... continue

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Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Congo flag Congo
Description:
After an ancient initiation, a young Congolese boy is given an animal double in the form of a porcupine and the pair begin an inexplicable streak of murders until the porcupine quits and decides to pen a literary confession. Original.

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Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the "men of maize"—serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of l... continue

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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his nation.

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Milena, Milena, Ecstatic by Bae Suah EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
Yun's meticulously ordered life of reading books and drinking coffee receives a jolt when a mysterious cultural foundation unexpectedly agrees to fund his film proposal: a blend of fiction and documentary, a tone-poem constructed around a lyrical narrative, set around Scythian graves in the High Altai mountains. Desperate to be taken on as his assistant, the foundation's secretary follows him from their offices and begins a night of crossed wires, dislocation, and reality seen through glass, darkly.

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Mitternachtskinder by Salman Rushdie DE

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.

130.

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson EN

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Description:
“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas King Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, M... continue