[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Again in March, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Kobo weblog) had shared her suggestions on “must-read magical Caribbean novels.” On her listing, we discover Claire of the Sea Gentle, Edwidge Danticat; The Frequency of Magic, Anthony Joseph; Methods to Escape from a Leper Colony, Tiphanie Yanique; Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim, Marcia Douglas; Cereus Blooms at Night time, Shani Mootoo; and her personal debut novel, When We Have been Birds. Go to Kobo for a quick description of every novel.
Novelist Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, creator of When We Have been Birds, shares a handful of her favorite Caribbean novels that draw on themes of magic and the supernatural.
Once we consider magical realism the primary books that in all probability come to thoughts are these of Latin American writers, like Márquez, Allende, and Borges. However the Caribbean has a wealthy and diverse magical realism custom in its literature as properly that blurs the strains between the pure and the supernatural, upends our understandings of time and area and can stick with you lengthy after you flip the ultimate web page.
From the speculative to the spectral, the hang-out of historical past to the plush sorcery of language these are simply 5 (of a protracted listing) of my favourite Caribbean novels that breathe magic. [. . .]
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