Résultats pour "death" dans Réalisme magique

Acaso sea Crónica de una muerte anunciada la obra más «realista» de Gabriel García Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor. Cuando empieza la novela, ya se sabe que los hermanos Vicario van a matar a Santiago Nasar -de hecho, ya le han matado- para vengar el honor ultrajado de su hermana Ángela, pero el relato termina precisamente en el momento en que Santiago Nasar muere.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly absurdist novel about...

An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin! In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed...

A sweeping, genre-bending reimagining of the greatest love story ever told, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Ministry of Time. The infamous star-crossed lovers are trapped in a timeless loop, cursed to live, love, and die again and again, unless they can break the cycle...

What would you do if you had six weeks to live and could go anywhere and meet anyone? Prepare yourself for a fantastical adventure that spans time and space, heaven and hell, life, death, and countless philosophical possibilities in an amazing, imaginative journey that explores what it means to be alive while facing death. George is given six weeks to live.

A heart too big for this world. A life that changes everyone. "The audio version of Life & Death & Giants is especially captivating, with a cast of talented narrators voicing each of the points of view. Fans of John Irving will appreciate the quirky characters and surprising plot line. And...

The world has quite literally gone to hell. Rohan and Nora find themselves stranded and without transportation in a world where spirits and demons are wreaking havoc. The battle for the world’s survival depends on them. But along the way, they'll discover others with powers that may be able to help in this spiritual warfare. Will they find a way to banish the demons or, in the end, find themselves in their own eternal hell?

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from TIME, Book Riot, and Chicago Review of Books From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for...

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.

All Sadie Salt ever wanted was to make smiles whiter...and to track down the creature that murdered her parents. She spends her days as a dental assistant to the humans in her small town of Grimloch and her nights doctoring to its, well, not-so-human residents. Unfortunately, the nightlife doesn't know how to stay in the shadows where it belongs. Sadie's working tirelessly to pay off a nasty debt to a fairy she doesn't want to cross, coping with magic she can't use, and dreaming of a relationship with the local Sheriff - not that that's going to happen.

“Narrator Eunice Wong's perfect pacing and faultless emphasis bring Trip to life, and she adds an edge to her depiction of Sandra, reflecting her high anxiety and frustration.” —AudioFile A woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively...

For listeners of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark’s Loitering with Intent, this “sublime” and “delightfully unhinged” metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet’s spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a...

In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the...