Magical realism is a niche genre of fiction that straddles the space between realism and fantasy. Here are 10 Books With Magical Realism Everyone Should Read.
In this book that chronicles the life of seven generations of the Buendia family that lives in the fictional town of Macondo.
The protagonist of this book is Juan Preciado, and we follow his journey to his mother’s homeland after her death.
In this book, a small, cosy coffee shop in Tokyo offers its customers the unique opportunity to move in time while sipping on their coffee.
The protagonist of this book is an orphan boy born on the midnight of India’s independence on 15th August 1947.
The boundaries between human and natural worlds are blurred in this book, which features a clairvoyant who can talk to trees, a restless ocean spirit.
In the tradition of Marquez, Allende’s wonderful book looks at the history of Chile through generations of a family named Trueba.
Nobel laureate Morrison’s book, in which the ghosts of a haunted past return to the present, is a socially inquisitive magical realist book.
The protagonist of this book, Kafka, leaves his home under the prophesy of an Oedipal complex.
This landmark animal fantasy novel tells the story of a Tamilian boy from Pondhicherry ‘Pi’ Patel and a Bengal tiger.
This bewildering Menippean satire follows Satan and his crew. This includes a naked witch and a cat with a penchant for chess and vodka, descent on earth.