Magical Realism Fiction

From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves...

Meet Endurance Proudfoot, the bonesetter’s daughter: clumsy as a carthorse, with a tactless tongue and a face she’s sure only a mother could love. Durie only wants one thing in life—to follow her father and grandfather into the family business of bonesetting. It’s a physically demanding job, requiring strength, nerves of steel and discretion—and not the job for a woman. But Durie isn’t like other women.

From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes an engaging intellectual thriller and high romance set in Turkey about a young student whose life and identity is uprooted through the single act of reading a book. The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly...

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges. From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide...

Cuentos telúricos es una antología de cuentos casi fantásticos, o una colección de relatos mágicos por poco. En Cuentos telúricos caben los califas venerables, los hombres reptil, las niñas listas, los personajes atrapados dentro de personajes, las cartas llegadas del futuro, los círculos en los campos de cereal, los volcanes furibundos, las declaraciones de amor cuántico, los gatos, las abducciones, los calamares gigantes, las fábulas sin moraleja, las emanaciones invisibles surgidas del corazón de la tierra, los curas inmateriales, las mujeres del tiempo.

Jack, lui, est un creekwalker, il veille sur la forêt et se réfugie dans les légendes autochtones depuis le départ de son frère à la guerre. Le jour où l'ermite tombe nez à nez avec un ours blanc au cœur de la Colombie-Britannique, il croit rêver - la créature n'existe que dans les mythes anciens. Pourtant, la jeune femme inconsciente qu'il recueille semble prouver le contraire : marquée des griffes de la bête, Hannah développe d'étranges dons à son réveil.

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate...

Zu lange waren Opaline, Martha und Henry nur Nebenfiguren in ihrem eigenen Leben. Doch als diese drei ahnungslosen Fremden einen mysteriösen, verschwundenen Buchladen entdecken, wird alles anders. Dieser magische Ort zieht sie in ihren Bann und lässt sie erkennen, dass ihre eigenen Geschichten genauso außergewöhnlich sind wie die auf den Seiten ihrer geliebten Bücher. Während sie Geheimnisse lüften, tauchen sie in eine Welt voller Wunder ein, in der nichts so ist, wie es scheint.

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d'état. She survives by hunting, farming, trading, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit, led by a young female soldier, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron - a mythical, dangerous, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story, yet the soldier will not be deterred, forcing them both into a gruelling quest.

Most of the time, Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora are like any other teenagers, prowling the halls of their high school in search of new crushes and true friendships, all while trying to keep up their grades. Except these teens are anything but ordinary… Discovered as wolf cubs in the wilderness of Redstone Forest, the pack knows their adoptive parents are the only humans they can trust with their shape-shifting secret. So whenever the siblings want to wolf around, they race to the forest to run—and relish their special bond.

The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City - tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes' fictional world. Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes' first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz.

Dara is a normal woman living a normal life, as she approaches her 25th birthday. Though her vivid dreams and wild imagination often take her on adventures of her mind, she never expected that one day, she would be roped into a plot of madness and magic by four gorgeous, amazing, pain-in-the-arse guys who come stomping into her life and change everything....

Meshkwadoon is a tale that delves into the minds of a woman, a man, and a boy as they are dragged through an experience of fear, obsession, trauma, and terror. The foundational spirit of the land seeks to fulfill its obligation to an exchange of life for the life of all.

Una comunidad dividida por la codicia, la cobardía y el miedo. Un hombre perseguido por el fantasma de un pasado doloroso. Una joven en busca de la felicidad. Siete días, un breve periodo durante el cual el bien y el mal librarán una batalla decisiva y cada personaje decidirá a cuál de los dos bandos pertenece.

In the small town of Lazy Rivers, where secrets run as deep as the river that gave the town its name, three generations of Rivers women are about to discover that some memories can't stay buried forever. When Serenity Rivers returns home to care for her dying mother, she brings with her a gift she's spent years trying to escape—the ability to see other people's memories. But as boys start disappearing just as they did fifty years ago, Serenity realizes her gift might be the key to solving both the present mystery and the shadows of the past.

Cometierra ha elegido dos cosas: un barrio nuevo y no volver a usar su poder adivinatorio nunca más. Rodeada de desconocidos, va saliendo poco a poco de su encierro y aprende a manejarse en su nuevo entorno, al tiempo que aguarda el nacimiento de su sobrino, hijo de su hermano Walter y de la novia de este, Miseria.

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.

Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home - a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards and seldom calls.

Am glücklichsten war Wilbur mit Maggie, der großen Liebe seines Lebens. Damals, in ihren Flitterwochen in Venedig. Bevor er alles aufs Spiel setzte. Nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als die Zeit zurückzudrehen und einen anderen Weg einzuschlagen. Aber damit könnte er alles zerstören, was ihm je etwas bedeutet hat.