I just finished Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. I absolutely love it, it’s my kind of book, a fever dream in which decades pass like minutes with a story that invokes a deeply hidden sense of wonder. And then I got to the end and I just feel completely empty from a literary journey that felt so real.

I was hoping ya’ll could suggest me a book to fill the void left behind.

Thanks

  • reallyjustforlurking@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I totally suggest House of the Spirits as others have suggested. Much milder on the magical realism, but there’s something wonderful about the way the prose flows in Spanish, not sure if that came through in the translation but the story is great.

    Alternately if you want a multi-generational epic with fully developed characters, many who “grow up” and lose childhood innocence during the story, I would suggest East of Eden.

    • jiongxina@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      maybe I’ll just learn Spanish, it’s pretty close to my two main languages