Read Song of Solomon

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

A distillery family in Shandong during the Japanese invasion; Mo Yan's Nobel novel behind Zhang Yimou's film.

Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

A runaway boy and an old man who talks to cats; fish fall from the sky.

A missing cat, a missing wife and a dry well in a Tokyo suburb; Murakami's big one.