fantasy + literary fiction

4 books tagged both “fantasy” and “literary fiction”.

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

2,535-word summary · 11 min read

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2002

Fifteen year old Kafka Tamura flees Tokyo while old Nakata, who talks to cats, drifts toward the same library town in Shikoku in parallel.

2,496-word summary · 11 min read

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 2020

Matt Haig's The Midnight Library retold: Nora between lives, Mrs Elm, regrets tried on, and choosing to live.

2,410-word summary · 11 min read

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger · 2003

Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife retold: Henry's jumps, Clare waiting, art, and a marriage in two tenses.

1,932-word summary · 9 min read