Magical Realism Short Stories

Cuentos telúricos es una antología de cuentos casi fantásticos, o una colección de relatos mágicos por poco. En Cuentos telúricos caben los califas venerables, los hombres reptil, las niñas listas, los personajes atrapados dentro de personajes, las cartas llegadas del futuro, los círculos en los campos de cereal, los volcanes furibundos, las declaraciones de amor cuántico, los gatos, las abducciones, los calamares gigantes, las fábulas sin moraleja, las emanaciones invisibles surgidas del corazón de la tierra, los curas inmateriales, las mujeres del tiempo.

"Олеся", "Гранатовый браслет", "Суламифь", "Поединок" — произведения Александра Куприна охватывают множество разных тем: социальную, военную, любовную. Но этот сборник открывает читателю другого Куприна — проводника в таинственный мир, где переплелись и стали неразличимы реальность и мистика. Молодой незаметный мелкий чиновник Иван Степанович Цвет случайно разгадывает таинственную головоломку и овладевает "тайной, которой больше тридцати столетий". Отныне все, о чем бы он ни подумал, начинает сбываться. Цвет становится богат, успешен, знаменит — но счастлив ли? Ведь у каждого исполненного желания есть последствия.

A young man wakes up in a mysterious land, injured and not knowing who he is. He finds a group of shepherds who he must accompany on their annual journey to the Great Forest to see the Great Star. On this journey, he will discover not only who he is, but where his home really lies.

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A demon who runs story time at the local library. A robot that guards nuclear waste. A vampire who gives relationship advice. Death’s personal lawyer. The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales is a collection of stories that mix the mundane and bizarre, that both disturb and delight. From the creator of The Stench of Adventure comes a set of mystifying stories with an undercurrent of warmth and heart.

In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son’s fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious cat appears in a young woman’s home, as inexplicable as the demise of her years-long relationship with her boyfriend. At turns humorous, sorrowful, and whimsical, this collection spans the familiar setting of a college town supermarket to eerie dystopias that are not just post-pandemic, but post-art.

From USA Today best-selling author Casi McLean, five award-winning novelettes with supernatural twists grab you on minute one and hold you spellbound long after you listen.

L'ultima opera dell'autore de "L'ombra del vento", l'omaggio letterario con cui Carlos Ruiz Zafón ha voluto congedarsi per sempre dai suoi lettori. "Posso evocare i volti dei bambini del quartiere della Ribera con cui a volte giocavo o facevo a botte per strada, ma non ce n'è nessuno che desideri riscattare dal paese dell'indifferenza. Nessuno tranne quello di Blanca." Si apre così la raccolta di racconti che lo scrittore della saga del Cimitero dei libri dimenticati ha voluto lasciare ai suoi lettori.

Dos escuelas de escritores hiperbreves luchan por hacerse con el dominio del género. Los fundadores de las escuelas son los gemelos Salazar, irremediablemente enfrentados por su ideología y por un odio fratricida. Es este libro se recogen las obras de los excéntricos o los desgraciados que formaron parte de una de estas escuelas. Fantasía, horror, ciencia ficción, noir y realismo mágico quedan miniaturizados en los cien microcuentos que recoge la antología.

En este libro se incluye su primer cuento célebre, «Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo», ambientado en lo que sería el escenario de sus obras posteriores. El personaje de Isabel reaparecerá en su primera novela, y el tema de la lluvia cayendo interminablemente, en su personal versión del diluvio universal, acabaría integrándose suave y flexiblemente en Cien años de soledad. Esta edición incluye, además, cuentos: «Tubal-Caín forja una estrella», «De cómo Natanael hace una visita» y «Un hombre viene bajo la lluvia».

Just because Jenny was born without a head doesn't mean she isn't still annoying to her older brother, and just because the Man of the Future's carefully planned extramarital affair ends in alien abduction and network fame doesn't mean he can't still pine for his absent wife. Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing.

Mi era stata chiesta una scelta dei racconti contenuti nei miei due volumi "Le Cosmicomiche" e "Ti con zero". Li organizzai in un libro costruito con un ciclo di storie sulla Luna, uno sulla Terra, uno su Sole Stelle Galassie, uno sull'Evoluzione, uno sullo Spazio e sul Tempo. Mi accorsi che il libro che avevo messo insieme, e che s'intitolò "La memoria del mondo", più che una rielaborazione di cose già pubblicate per avvicinare un pubblico di lettori nuovi, era il vero libro che avevo voluto scrivere fin da principio, o almeno era ciò che più vi si avvicinava.

Con il suo caratteristico stile ironico e surreale, ricco di riferimenti colti e soluzioni linguistiche originali, Roberto Barbolini torna con una nuova raccolta di racconti che esplorano il tragicomico intreccio fra le "basse voglie" del corpo e il richiamo insopprimibile del sacro nell’epoca della sua impossibilità.

Big Rosa rescues unhappy women of the Wild West to work in a helium mine, and Georgie Appleseed rescues his failing diner with the help of neon. A silicon son tries to make his gold dad proud, while a scientist tries to make a new St. Francis from calcium bone fragments. Obadiah Toad gives away all his peace with a nickel, but Mama finally gives away her heart on account of arsenic. These 20 stories explore the elemental forces that underpin all of life.

At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a Born Winner runs through his life’s achievements and losses; in a suburban garden, a man witnesses a murder that pushes him out into the community. Struggling to realise the human ideals of love and freedom, the characters of Dark Neighbourhood roam instead the depths of alienation, loss and shame.

The stories in Animal Husbandry all deal in some way with mythology, from animal fables to imaginary friends to the myths people tell themselves. In some cases, the myths are fantastical: a farmer finds his cow has given birth to a surprising offspring; a guitarist tries to improve his skills with a visit to the crossroads; or a young girl meets with a visitor in the woods to plot against her neighbors. Others concern everyday mythology: a small-town ballplayer struggles to earn a nickname; or a man's clean bill of health arrives at the worst possible time.

Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, ghosts, poverty, tyranny, and the permeability of the line between the living and the dead. These stories offer a heady mix of absurdity and bleakness on the one hand and exuberant magic realism on the other.

Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista. Cuentos de tradición oral que han pasado a lo largo de los siglos de la boca de las abuelas a los sueños de sus nietos y nietas, siempre de corte fantástico, siempre con enseñanzas profundas y siempre portando la esencia de la identidad japonesa a través de su tradición.

Le "Storie naturali" di Primo Levi uscirono nel 1966 con lo pseudonimo di Damiano Malabaila. Fu la casa editrice a suggerire all'autore una qualche presa di distanza da questi racconti fantascientifici apparentemente così lontani dai due libri di Levi pubblicati in precedenza: "Se questo è un uomo" e "La tregua". Oggi che finalmente sappiamo distinguere il testimone dallo scrittore, i racconti delle "Storie naturali", come già quelli del "Sistema periodico", sono destinati a crescere nella considerazione dei critici e dei lettori.

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be 26th president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley's assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a "perfect bull in a china shop," a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president.