Títulos em Realismo Mágico

¿Escribí esto con cólera? Sí. ¿Escribí esto con amor? También. En la versión Youtube de mi vida habría escrito una ranchera o un vallenato, me habría vuelto famosa y la fama me habría quitado la tusa. Pero en la vida real escribí esta novela, porque esta historia ya ha sido contada en todos los géneros musicales y no sé cantar. Pero más importante aún, quería vengarme del que fue el amor de mi vida: un hombre casado (y, para colmo, más feo que yo).

Wenn ein Fluch dich an deinen Erzfeind bindet ... Für Irina ist ihre Magie das Wertvollste, was sie besitzt. Denn nur diejenigen mit Sternenstaub im Blut verfügen über die Macht der Planeten und können sich so eine gute Zukunft sichern. Doch kurz vor Beginn ihres magischen Studiums wird das alles unbedeutend: Ausgerechnet Alexej, der Mann, der ihr Leben beinahe komplett zerstört hätte, taucht wieder auf und offenbart ihr, dass sie mit einem Fluch belegt wurden, der sie beide irgendwann töten wird.

Toni Morrisons bekanntester Roman in Neuübersetzung von Tanja Handels. Beloved, Toni Morrisons bekanntestes Werk und einer der wichtigsten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts (The New York Times), erzählt mit den Mitteln des magischen Realismus von den grauenhaften Auswirkungen der Versklavung auf das Leben einer Familie. Sethe lebt seit Langem in einem kleinen Haus am Rande von Cincinnati, wo sie die Vergangenheit auszulöschen versucht.

En los huesos de Diego Santamaría transcurre esta historia que nos introduce en el perverso—pero maravilloso—espacio de Pahuatlán, donde el rito se sincretiza con la fe, el fervor y el lenguaje de las premoniciones. El protagonista nos presenta a sus gentes y serpenteamos entre sus miserias, sus ceremonias y miedos, para llegar al final de este laberinto oscuro donde hay un respiro, pero no la paz.

(…) Gardel solo quiere elevarse, que lo dejen en paz para elevarse. Hace mucho tiempo que está atrapado en la zona inferior, reclamado continuamente por los que escuchan sus discos y gente como usted, que estudian su vida. Todo eso lo tira hacia abajo, ¿comprende?, no lo deja ascender.

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love.

When Grace Cleary's father passes suddenly, she realizes that the life she has shared with her husband Richard is not the one wanted for herself or her daughter, Bayla. When she inherits Cleary's Crab Shack, her father's seafood restaurant and the center of the small Maiden's Cove community, it gives her the push she needs to leave her controlling husband. She and Bayla leave in the night and return to Maiden's Cove. The restaurant has suffered from the loss of her father and it is up to her and her family, friends, and the community, to save it from closing.

Encuentras de todo, y todo cabe, en los recovecos de la bolsa de una mujer. Del mismo modo, toda historia, todo mundo narrable, cabe en una prosa concisa, como es el caso. La bolsa en este libro es un "multiverso": se hallan cosas tan comunes como el chicle de Susanita —la hija—, las fantásticas medias de Colón, una pluma del penacho de Moctezuma o hasta la cola de un dinosaurio. Como todo objeto fetiche, la bolsa de la señora Rodríguez es una extensión de ella misma: es la identidad, desmenuzar su contenido es sinónimo de develar su ser interno.

Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry endless. Sofía, a freedwoman from a nearby colonized island, cares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantation, she has neither wealth nor title, only a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brother, who disappeared five years ago.

Holland, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Weiren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in the noonday sun. But Clara doesn’t believe in magic and superstition, and this portent is quickly dismissed when a proposal from a wealthy merchant arrives, promising Clara the freedom she seeks from her mother’s overbearing rule. When her attempts at overseeing the household at the family’s estate lead to her chance encounter with a young man with russet hair and sparkling eyes the color of the sea, she finds herself strangely drawn to him.

Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn’t left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. It’s easy to self-isolate when your heart’s shattered and the planet you’ve spent your whole life trying to save is dying right outside your window. But when a houseplant randomly appears on her doorstep with an anonymous note, Fiona feels a flicker of hope—it’s not just any plant; it’s Ed’s favorite. Thinking it’s a sign, Fiona pours Ed’s ashes into the soil, only to wake up to find the plant has vibrantly flowered. And can…talk?

Nachdem die Friedensgespräche gescheitert sind, flieht Seraphina mit Niran zurück nach Eira. Da ihr Herz längst ihm gehört, ist sie entschlossener denn je, den Krieg zu beenden. Dazu muss sie ihre aufkeimenden Phönixkräfte stärken und unter Kontrolle bringen. Nur wenn sie ihre volle Macht erweckt, kann sie ihre Familie retten und sich selbst eine Zukunft mit Niran ermöglichen.

¿Cuántas vidas y cuántas muertes son posibles en la existencia de una misma persona? Los ingrávidos es una novela sobre existencias fantasmales; una evocación, a la vez melancólica y llena de humor, sobre la imposibilidad del encuentro amoroso y el carácter irrevocable de la pérdida. Dos voces componen esta novela. La narradora, una mujer del México contemporáneo, relata sus años de juventud como editora en Nueva York, en los que el fantasma del poeta Gilberto Owen la perseguía por el metro.

At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she’s got left. Getting old isn’t the hardest part about life. It’s the memories from more than fifty years ago of the death of her unrequited love. And Birdie’s abandoned quest to root out the killer.

has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another—something she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth. Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control.

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing… She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?

When Liv’s boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she’s pushed her way through the grief, and now, miraculously, she's found a way to love again. Until the morning of her wedding, when Liv steps through a doorway, and finds herself, somehow, back at the flat she shared with Kit: seven years earlier, six days before he left.

Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off. It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have enough, but with mounting debts, hobbies, and in the case of Gabby, Portum Bestiae Syndrome—a very expensive condition in which strange symptoms arise and then an exotic animal appears—the siblings don’t have much of a choice.

Anne Brandon has always understood the power of a king’s patronage and, though the court of Henry VIII is a dangerous place for women, as the daughter of the king’s best friend, Anne feels safer than most. But Anne’s husband Lord Powis is tiring of her childlessness and when Henry VIII begins plotting to rid himself of a queen in his quest for an heir, suddenly Anne’s life is in danger. And as whispers of the name of her friend Anne Boleyn’s get ever louder, there is peril in every loose word, every forbidden conversation.