Like Water for Chocolate
Tita expresses forbidden love for Pedro through meals in revolutionary Mexico.
2,590-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: magical realism
6 books with this tag.
Kafka on the Shore
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
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.
2,070-word summary · 9 min read
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of the Buendia family rise and fall in Macondo, where memory, war and miracles blur together.
2,093-word summary · 9 min read
Life of Pi
Life of Pi retold: Pondicherry zoo, ship loss, Pi and Richard Parker in a boat, two stories.
1,936-word summary · 9 min read