For fans of: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Regarded as one of the greatest magical realism books ever ...

This posthumous novel draws an elegiac picture of an American ... yet gentle—the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father’s corpse ...

and Nineteenth-Century Fiction offers an original and nuanced analysis of the relation between Victorian realist novels and nineteenth-century photography." Nineteenth Century Literature "this is one ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel tells the story of seven generations ... Its genre bending narraritve is part magical realism (think levitating babies and a four year-long rainstorm), part ...

The novel is considered a prime example of the magical realist literary style. If you want to understand García Márquez, you need to get to know the people, their attitude to life, the ...

And then there was the matter of magical realism, which the author used to conjure his experience of Latin America’s capricious, stranger-than-fiction reality. In the novel, which opens in the ...

The City and Its Uncertain Walls' is a sheer delight to read: Puzzling, surprising and even at times hallucinatory, like a Hans Escher engraving ...