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Recommended magical realism books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into magical realism here are some magical realism books from Ecuador for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez EN

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A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the concep... continue

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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina : A Novel by Zoraida Córdova EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
"A ... novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited"--