Magic Realism
Best Magic Realist BooksCarol Birch's Top 12 Magic Realist Books
Franz Kafka
The Trial (1925)
Alejo Carpentier
The Kingdom of This World (1949)
Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths (1953), or his Collected Fictions (1998)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita (1966–7, in full in 1973)
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman (1967)
Carlos Fuentes
Terra Nostra (1975)
Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979)
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children (1981)
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits (1982)
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionMagic Realism: Carol Birch