Read The House of the Spirits

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

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.

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910; Min Jin Lee's epic.

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

A delivery driver on a secret highway under Kentucky; magical realism in five acts.

Milkman Dead searches for gold and finds his family's past; Morrison's flying men.

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