Magical Realism

62 books

The Woman Who Left: The Truth cover
The Woman Who Left: The Truth Yao Emei Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Woman Who Left: The Truth is one of author Yao Emei's "Woman Who Left" trilogy (the other two being Ximen Slope and The Language of Clothes), publ…
One Hundred Years of Solitude cover
Rating 4.7
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2011 One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and one of the most representative works of magical realist li…
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Rating 4.0
Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi CITIC Press · 2018 In 2005, Baghdad after the Iraq War is under American occupation, with explosions and shootings occurring almost daily, and corpses and dismembered li…
The Tang Town Trilogy (Tang Town Stories: Dreamkeeper, The Painter, Hunger) cover
The Tang Town Trilogy (Tang Town Stories: Dreamkeeper, The Painter, Hunger) Li Ximin Chongqing Publishing House · 2022 The Tang Town Trilogy is a series of novels that author Li Ximin completed over several years. Set in the fictional southern town of Tang Town, it spa…
TV People cover
TV People Haruki Murakami Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 TV People is a short story collection by Haruki Murakami, published in 1990, containing six works: "TV People," "The Plane—Or How He Talked to Himself…
The Fragrance of Guava cover
Rating 4.6
The Fragrance of Guava Gabriel García Márquez / P. A. Mendoza Nanhai Publication Company · 2015 The Fragrance of Guava (El olor de la guayaba) is a book-length conversation between the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 N…
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When All Things Stop Growing 赵志明 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 When All Things Stop Growing is the second short-story collection by the Jiangsu writer Zhao Zhiming, published in 2015 by Shanghai Literature and Art…
The Master and Margarita cover
Rating 4.6
The Master and Margarita 米哈伊尔·布尔加科夫 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2017 The Master and Margarita is the most important work of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) and a classic of twentieth-century Russian and …
One Hundred Years of Solitude cover
Rating 4.7
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2011 One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1967 and regarded as a milestone of magica…
TV People cover
Rating 3.9
TV People Haruki Murakami Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 The TV People is a short story collection by Haruki Murakami, published in 1990 under the original Japanese title TV Pīpuru. It gathers six stories: "…
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Rating 4.0
Tuesday Siesta Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2015 Tuesday Siesta is the third book Gabriel García Márquez published, translated into Chinese by Liu Xiliang and Sun Jiying. It collects eight short stor…
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Rating 3.5
The Monsters of Templeton Lauren Groff CITIC Press · 2018 This is the debut novel of the American writer Lauren Groff, originally titled The Monsters of Templeton; the Chinese edition, translated by Xie Jiazh…
Dushan (Lone Mountain) cover
Dushan (Lone Mountain) Pu Zi Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013 Dushan is the second installment of Zhejiang writer Pu Zi's Wangzhuang Trilogy, which the author worked on for many years. It was first published by H…
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Rating 4.3
Red Poppies Alai People's Literature Publishing House · 1998 Red Poppies is the first novel by the Tibetan writer Alai. It was first published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1998 and won the fifth Ma…
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao cover
Rating 4.0
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Yilin Press · 2016 Oscar Wao is a boy who seems in no way Dominican: he cannot play sports or dance, is severely overweight, is introverted and depressive, and fits in n…
The Death of Spring cover
Rating 4.0
The Death of Spring 梅尔赛·罗多雷达 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Death of Spring (original Catalan title La mort i la primavera) is a novel by Spanish author Mercè Rodoreda, written during her exile and left unf…
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Green Angel Alice Hoffman Harbin Publishing House · 2005 Green Angel is a short novel for young adults by the American author Alice Hoffman. The Chinese edition, translated by Gao Lifan, was published by Har…
Of Love and Other Demons cover
Rating 4.3
Of Love and Other Demons Gabriel García Márquez Nanhai Publication Company · 2016 Of Love and Other Demons is a novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1994. It is his last novel and is often named alongsi…
The Man Who Sells the Past cover
Rating 4.4
The Man Who Sells the Past 若泽·爱德华多·阿瓜卢萨 / 朱豫歌 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 "I" am a lizard, wandering about the house, looking down like a god on everything inside and out, and now and then I recall those old days when I was …
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Rating 4.5
The Wild Ass's Skin Honoré de Balzac / 魏映雪 Shandong Pictorial Publishing House · 2023 With its rare vein of magical realism among Balzac's works, The Wild Ass's Skin is a classic philosophical novel that combines critique, realism, and …