Genre :: Magical Realism (21 books)

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  #8

  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  (14 Reviews)

  719 Points

  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

  

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  #12

  One Hundred Years of Solitude

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (25 Reviews)

  667 Points

  "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."

  

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  #29

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  391 Points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #70

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  250 Points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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  #93

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  201 Points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

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  #126

  Love in The Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (8 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

  

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  #139

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #151

  If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  by Italo Calvino

  (5 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.Stai per cominciare a leggere il nuovo romanzo Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore di Italo Calvino."

  

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  #153

  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov

  (11 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch’s Ponds.At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.Однажды весною,..."

  

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  #178

  Ficciones

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  (1 Review)

  112 Points

  "I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

  

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