Títulos em Realismo Mágico

Nine Bodies in a Puddle is a collection of nine interconnected short stories that follow nine characters who discover a body of water. When they step into the water, they switch places with their reflection. The stories slowly traverse from a fairy-tale/fantasy style toward the realm of horror.

Suddenly Maddy is right there… in her very own future. And it’s all wrong, yet again. It happens to her every time. When the kisses lead to the bedroom, just when she thinks she might have found the one… Just for a split second, Maddy disappears, and she finds that she’s living her own life. But ten years into the future. She’s only there for a little while. But each time, it’s long enough to know that she doesn’t want to be any of those future versions of Maddy. Because every man she falls for seems to lead her to a future that is just… wrong. Until she meets Oliver.

Străveacul şi alte vremi este considerată cea mai reuşită carte a scriitoarei poloneze. Olga Tokarczuk construieşte o vastă alegorie despre forţa distructivă a timpului, povestind optzeci de ani din viaţa locuitorilor unui sat mitic. Sensul său profund este reprezentat de modul în care omul se poate plasa în istorie pentru a se redescoperi. Îmbinînd realismul cu magicul, ignorînd aspectele (post)moderne ale unei societăţi, scriitoarea reuşeşte să dea romanului său o dimensiune universală.

Step back in time to the era of the American Revolution with Washington Irving's classic tale, "Rip Van Winkle," brought to life by the engaging narration of Anthony Pica. This timeless story follows the adventures of Rip Van Winkle, a kind but idle man who escapes the troubles of his nagging wife by wandering into the mountains. There, he encounters mysterious figures who offer him a drink that leads to an extraordinary slumber.

Wenn ein magisch völlig unbegabter Mann zehn Töchter hat, die nur so vor Magie strotzen, dann ist das absolute Chaos vorprogrammiert. Ronald Clevis, Versicherungsvertreter und alleinerziehender Vater von zehn Jung-Hexen, muss sich nicht nur um die Erziehung seiner Töchter kümmern, sondern gleichzeitig versuchen, heiratswillige Damen fernzuhalten. Zehn Mädels im Haus sind mehr als genug! Einzig Elvira, seine unverheiratete Schwägerin, kommt und geht wie es ihr passt und wirbelt dabei den ganzen Haushalt durcheinander. Dabei hat sie natürlich auch ein Auge auf Ronald …

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met—Pedro Páramo—but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.

We are Once Upon a Timepeople. People of the reindeer. Volcano people. I know that air has feelings and that messages can be sent through the earth; that I can touch someone, and their lives will be forever changed but that I am not responsible.

Würdest Du einem Fremden glauben, der sagt, er sei Dein Prinz? Als Kellnerin lebt Eva ein normales, absolut vorhersehbares Leben. Sie liebt ihre Routine, ihren Alltag, ihren durchgeplanten Terminkalender. Doch ihr beschauliches Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als sich eines Tages ein Fremder vor sie hinkniet und behauptet, er sei ihr Prinz. Er nimmt sie mit in ein sagenumwobenes Land, das als Zauberland bekannt ist. Dort schneit es seit vielen Jahren und die böse Königin verbreitet Angst und Schrecken. Mit ihren Gräueltaten hält sie die Bewohner und das gesamte Land in Atem.

The island of Inishrún, small and forbidding, holds a deeply protected secret. It is home to the Sidhe, a magical race as old as the earth. This is their stronghold in a world that has forgotten them. Holly Tremenhere, sad and disillusioned with her life, travels across the wild sea to the island on the second-to-last ferry before winter closes the crossing. She is there to unravel the mystery of who she truly is and the only living person who can tell her is her beautiful, estranged aunt, Mim.

¿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.

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.

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.

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.