For our Rambert piece, we have been directed towards the ideas of Magical Realism, including some novels which relate to that genre.
There is a page on my Inner Ground member area with a list of books that some of us have already, have obtained, and are passing round and reading. As part of this effort, I have read Like Water for Chocolate, Clay, and am currently deep into The House of the Spirits. I had already read Midnight’s Children, and I wondered if The Celestine Prophesy, along with The Tenth Insight were sort of in the same area.
Like Water for Chocolate is a very accessible book, it seems to me, arranged into a nice simple chronological structure, hovering on the Mexican/US border, mostly to the south, with not too much Magical stuff to make it difficult to go along with!
Clay is partly young adult fiction, set in Newcastle, about a teenage altar boy and his mates, where a splash of madness, Catholicism and rites of passage edge towards the Magical…
And I suppose they relate to the slightly unreal (or Magically Realistic) feeling on the Galapagos island of Floreana, invoked by the film about the mysterious Countess…