The Magic Dogs of San Vicente is set in the aftermath of the war in El Salvador (1980-1992), a war in which the two Flores brothers were arrested and savagely tortured, but a war that they ultimately survived. On a heat-soaked morning...
Magic realist fiction
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Author:Fishman, MarkSummary: - Author:Leduc, AmandaSummary:
A haunting story about rapture and grace. Amanda Leduc's stunning novel is the tale of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
This collection spans Gaiman's career to date.
- Author:Hopkinson, NaloSummary:
What's in a name? A lot, according to Caribbean-born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now in her fifties, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: Her beloved father has just...
- Author:Thâeroux, RichSummary:
Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose....
- Author:Baille, MarthaSummary:
From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior of Baffin Island. His...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. Louise...
- Author:Forbes, LaniSummary:
Six royal daughters vie to become empress of the Chicome people in a competition only one will survive.
- Author:Kraus, Daniel, Toro, Guillermo delSummary:
*Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture* Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking audiobook. The...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series comes a story of a grouchy South-Pole explorer befriends a singing lamb. Lambert, a little lamb with an angelic singing voice, is carried off to the South Pole by rich, grouchy Mr. Van...
- Author:Abdullah, ChelseaSummary:
Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she...
- Author:MacDonald, SherrySummary:
The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett. When Alan visits the home of Keaton to discuss the project, titled simply Film, he...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the...
- Author:Irving, JanSummary:
Alejandro Moreno drops out of college and puts aside his dream of a degree in landscape design to take care of his mother and younger brother. Then he gets the chance to restore a strange and unpopular patch of land with an uncanny...
- Author:Kaufman, AndrewSummary:
A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value. As time passes the loss of these items have a dramatic effect on the victims: one discovers God under her sofa...
- Author:Moisan, MartinSummary:
The Voyage of Ayrus is a philosophical tale for everyone. It relates the story of a young man on an initiation quest, seeking the secrets of the elixir of life and the pill of immortality. During his travels, Ayrus will come in contact...
- Author:Prendergast, GabrielleSummary:
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, 14-year-old Blue Jasper goes on another Faerie Woods adventure, to the Wherewood, the forest of lost things.
- Author:De Lint, CharlesSummary:
When various lives collide in the Hierro Maderas Mountains, each must struggle to escape a messy past and find a way to carve a future. They don't just have to learn how to survive. They have to learn how to fly.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada...
- Author:Arden, KatherineSummary:
Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias...
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