Magic Realist Fiction

Below is a list of the most popular Magic Realist fiction to be loaned out at Yarra Libraries in 2011.

Garden spells by Sarah Addison Allen
House of spirits by Isabel Allende
The alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Hullabaloo in the guava orchard by Kiran Desai
The mistress of spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Like water for chocolate by Laura Esquivel
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Green witch by Alice Hoffmann
Pomegranate soup by Marsha Mehran
Of bees and mist by Erick Setiawan
The hummingbird’s daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Wise children by Angela Carter
Practical magic by Alice Hoffman
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie
The tin drum by Gunter Grass
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Further information

Theary Sindel
Carlton Library and Reading Services Team Leader
9426 5603
Theary.Sindel@yarracity.vic.gov.au

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