By framing the 'story' as conversations between emperor Kublai Khan and explorer Marco Polo, imagination and the imaginable are explored through descriptions of fifty-five fictitious cities.
Tag: magical realism
Susanna Clarke · Piranesi
This slim, strange, and surreal fantasy novel feels like slowly waking up from a dream; the kind in which you're aware that you're dreaming, and that doesn't fade upon awakening.
Toni Morrison · Song of Solomon
Book-ended by two leaps, two attempts to take flight, the rich, sprawling, kaleidoscopic story that unfurls between these acts of surrender takes wing slowly, but deliberately.
Neil Gaiman · The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
Distilled childhood: That's what this short, fantastical, nostalgic, magical realism, and quintessentially Gaimanesque story about memory is.
Eowyn Ivey · To The Bright Edge of the World
Pieced together from journal entries, military reports, letters, photographs, newspaper articles and museum descriptions of artifacts, Ivey crafted a stunningly immersive historical fiction novel of adventure and love.
Toni Morrison · Beloved
This Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning book is, in a nutshell, about overcoming the past without denying it. Beloved is a Great American Novel about the country's relationship with slavery and its psychological impact on its victims and their descendants.
Eowyn Ivey · The Snow Child
The Snow Child is a novel filled with yearning, hope, sorrow, joy, beauty, and wonder that dances on the edge between fairytale and magical realism; it's Eowyn Ivey’s debut, and was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.