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John Irving
I had a similar experience with the Garcia Marquez novel A Hundred Years of Solitude. In miraculous Macondo, the ordinary and supernatural are entwined; incest and intermarriage give many generations of the Buendia family a classically Greek and predestined future.
View John Irving's Top 10 Favorite BooksJohn Irving
I had a similar experience with the Garcia Marquez novel A Hundred Years of Solitude. In miraculous Macondo, the ordinary and supernatural are entwined; incest and intermarriage give many generations of the Buendia family a classically Greek and predestined future.
View John Irving's Top 10 Favorite BooksIrvine Welsh
It’s an easy pick. Music in the form of words. It’s every Western pseudo-lit lover asshole’s cliché of a ‘spiritual third world novel’ that I almost hate myself for loving it, but I do.
View Irvine Welsh's Top 10 Favorite BooksMike Leigh
They call this masterpiece ‘magical realism’, but I hate the label. Real it is, human and passionate and endlessly moving and compelling. It’s about family, relationships, fate, time. And ghosts. And solitude. Marvelous.
View Mike Leigh's Top 10 Favorite BooksAvni Doshi
This book has probably influenced me more than any other work of fiction that I have read. I came to it by accident, on my aunt’s bookshelf, and I could see that even though the book was old, it had never been opened. Marquez led me to my own preoccupation with memory, which has informed almost all of my creative writing so far.
View Avni Doshi's Top 10 Favorite BooksF. Murray Abraham
His imagination translates magic into reality, pretty good trick.
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