Titoli in Realismo magico

Didone Piccardi ha quasi trent'anni e lavora come autrice di un programma in una rete televisiva seguita principalmente da un pubblico di anziani di Padova. È laureata, ha lavorato all'estero, è una millennial per antonomasia che cerca di vivere ecologicamente ed eticamente. Nasconde a tutti un segreto e ciò blocca la sua capacità di piangere. Ha una famiglia di accademici, una madre irlandese, un fratello che abita a Hong Kong, uno zio combinaguai e donnaiolo che vive in Thailandia e una nonna, Italia, alla quale è molto legata.

Casandra, Caleb y Calia son tres hermanos a cada cual más insólito. Casandra, la mayor, siente atracción sexual por los objetos; Caleb, el mediano, provoca la muerte a todo animal que se acerque a él; por último, Calia, la más pequeña, permanece en silencio todo el tiempo y tiene un talento especial para el dibujo hiperrealista de animales.

After her mother dies, Hannah doesn’t know how to exist without her. Literally. In fact, Hannah’s not even certain that she does exist. No one seems to see or hear her, and she finds herself utterly alone. Grief-stricken and confused, her sense of self slowly slipping away, Hannah sets out to find new purpose in life—and answers about who (and what) she really is.

After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.

Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her great-aunt each summer, like a piece of forgotten luggage. It is only when Isla turns eighteen, and her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies, that Isla discovers she has a gift. The tales of dead family storytellers are brought back to life, replaying themselves over and over in front of her.

I racconti di Ben Okri, vincitore del Booker Prize, mescolano diversi piani di realtà, sempre in bilico fra oscurità e magia. Storie irriverenti, incredibili, a volte divertenti altre sconvolgenti, ambientate a Londra, a Bisanzio, nel ghetto, sulle Ande, e in altri luoghi noti ma misteriosi, con protagonisti diversi che abbracciano una molteplicità di personaggi umani, e non solo. Ben Okri si dimostra un autore all’apice della sua potenza espressiva, che padroneggia sapientemente il mezzo del racconto per far ridere il lettore, per farlo pensare, per fargli ribaltare completamente il punto di vista su ciò che lo circonda.

A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Now with a new introduction by the...

Cometierra ha elegido dos cosas: un barrio nuevo y no volver a usar su poder adivinatorio nunca más. Rodeada de desconocidos, va saliendo poco a poco de su encierro y aprende a manejarse en su nuevo entorno, al tiempo que aguarda el nacimiento de su sobrino, hijo de su hermano Walter y de la novia de este, Miseria.

Lorsque le jeune étudiant Fumiya découvre cette rumeur, il quitte Tokyo pour partir en quête de l'ouvrage qu'il recherche depuis des années. À son arrivée, il tombe sur Makino, la patronne rayonnante de la librairie, Waku, le propriétaire un tantinet agressif, et Sugawa, le libraire taciturne au nœud papillon. Mais ce que Fumiya ne sait pas encore, c'est que lorsque vous y entrez, les problèmes, les maux du quotidien, les petits tracas ou les difficultés semblent disparaître comme par magie.

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if you got to do everything in your life—twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel—charmingly narrated by Mitch himself—is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate . . . only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead...

Now an original film streaming on Netflix , directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American...

García Márquez retrata con pulso magistral la figura de Simón Bolívar, que transmutó el destino de América. Aclamado por el pueblo como Libertador, blanco de numerosas conjuras políticas y militares, héroe romántico y hasta libertino para sus detractores y sus partidarios, idealista íntegro y abandonado que contempla las ruinas de su sueño de unidad de los pueblos americanos, tras la independencia del dominio español Simón Bolívar emprende - enfermo, con un menguado séquito - el que será su viaje final. Parte desde Bogotá para seguir el curso del río Magdalena.

Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it's named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run, a grieving chef whose comfort food does not comfort him, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and three ghosts. Each with their own story.

“Luis Jaramillo weaves a captivating tale of family, tradition, and the enduring power of love.” —Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this “wild, wondrous novel about the magic that is...

Now on audio for the first time! Groundhog Day meets Grey’s Anatomy in this heartfelt novella with a hint of magic from the internationally bestselling author of The Room on Rue Amélie, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, and The Sweetness of Forgetting, in which a woman with only a short time to...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning...

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. “A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our...

Irgendwo im Süden, im Herzen der Stadt, wo die Menschen arm sind und das Gesetz der Straße gilt: Hier wachsen Mimmo, Cristofaro und Celeste auf. Sie haben Träume und Hoffnungen, obwohl ihnen der kindliche Blick längst abhanden gekommen ist. Mimmos Vater, der Fleischer des Viertels, betrügt seine Kunden mit einer präparierten Waage. Cristofaros Vater, ein Trinker, schlägt seinen Sohn jeden Abend. Und Celestes Mutter Carmela, die Prostituierte des Viertels, schickt ihre Tochter auf den Balkon, wenn sie ihre Freier empfängt.

On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be listened to one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl.