Magical realism genre books (316)
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IndiaDescription:
A young District Collector is posted to one of the furthest outposts of rural Rajasthan. As he becomes more and more involved with the lives and troubles of the common people in his district, he finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into the dark heart of the desert.
52.
De ce fierbe copilul în mămăligă by Aglaja Veteranyi RO
RomaniaDescription:
"Superbul roman-poem pe care vi-l recomand e pe muchia fluida dintre autobiografie si fictiv, dintre adevarul de viata si fabulatie poetica inspirata. Naratiunea la persoana intii a unei fetite de circari, care se teme ca mama ei va cadea din inaltul cupolei, unde atirna la propriu de niste fire de par, e de fapt o permanenta cautare a identitatii, intr-o lume fara repere si radacini. Romania, din care a plecat la trei ani, reprezinta pentru ea mincarurile specifice, gatite de mama in rulota, si vestile despre rudele ramase in tara lui Ceausescu, silite sa indure mizeria si umilinta cotid... continue
Japan54.
Deplorable Conversations with Cats and Other Distractions by YEOH. JO-ANN EN
MalaysiaDescription:
A man finds himself the unwitting companion of a talking cat. . . Lucky Lee has everything-- wealth, charm, money, good looks-- and does very, very little with it. He's content. He's happy. He takes for granted that life is good and always will be. But then his sister, the go-getting, successful, famous TV chef Pearl Lee, dies, horribly and suddenly. Lucky is devastated. As he struggles to live without the big sister who's always been the dominant, often relentless force in his life, the inconceivable happens-- her cat begins to talk to him. It wants to know where Pearl is. It questions his ea... continue
Colombia56.
Serbia
Poland58.
Peru60.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands : A Moral and Amorous Tale by Jorge Amado EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.