検索キーワード： 制作 "-- Kevin Wright --" マジックリアリズム

Es gibt Orte, an denen der Geist der Literatur in der Atemluft liegt. So ein Ort ist Timpamara, und hier lebt Astolfo Malinverno. Bücher und Geschichten bestimmen sein ganzes Leben, und als er seiner großen Liebe begegnet, scheinen die Grenzen zwischen Literatur und Realität auf wundersame Weise zu verschwimmen. In Timpamara, einem fiktiven Dorf in Italien, leben die Menschen schon lange von und mit der Literatur, denn hier entstand im 19. Jahrhundert die erste Papierfabrik Kalabriens.

Ben Harrison was well on his way to having the life he always wanted. He had a high-paying job, a great apartment and, most importantly, he had Carrie. She was fun, exciting, creative, beautiful, and a bit eccentric. Carrie had a fascination with the occult, which Ben found irrational but not particularly troubling.

Years ago, yellow fever gripped the small lakeside town of Prosper, Arkansas. At the height of that summer swelter, in the wake of an unexpected storm, the dam failed and the valley flooded—drowning the town and everyone trapped inside. The secrets of old Prosper drowned with them. Now, decades later, when a mysterious locked box is pulled from the depths of the lake, three descendants of that long-ago tragedy are hurled into another feverish summer.

Lumoava tarina salaperäisestä kartanosta ja sen vieraista. Kun Madeline Hartin elämä särkyy tuhansiksi palasiksi, hän päättää lähteä isovanhempiensa kartanolle Louisianaan. Vanha talo vaikuttaa uupuneelta ja yksinäiseltä aivan kuten hänkin: narisevat portaat, vanhanaikaisen kylpyammeen vuotava messinkihana, ullakon pilarit, jotka näyttävät vääntyilevän öisin... Talolla on jotakin kerrottavaa Madelinelle.

Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. Not that there aren’t advantages to my particular predicament. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to…put it to use, no? Who knows what could happen?

Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mum's unexpected cancer diagnosis, and as Evan's plans begin to fade, he hears something - a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer... Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theatre legend, she's headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the rise. But when a drunk driver takes her sister's life, that star fades to black. All that remains is a void - and a soft voice singing in her ear.

A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of...

I wasn’t supposed to be possible. Dead means dead, and the dead don’t reproduce. But when Lucifer ceased to exist, things went a little haywire for a while, opening a strange supernatural phenomena that made a lot of things possible, including me.

Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the listener’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother.

Die Zwillingsschwestern Mimi und Kodachi haben in Tokyo ein neues Leben begonnen, seit ihre Mutter in der Heimatstadt zwischen Bergen und Meer der Schlafkrankheit verfallen ist. Auf dem abgelegenen Ort lastet eine dunkle Sage. Eines Tages, als Kodachi die Mutter im Krankenhaus besuchen will, verschwindet sie plötzlich. Mimi macht sich besorgt auf die Suche. Alles deutet auf eine geheimnisvolle andere Welt hin.

When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found. Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realizes that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he once lived with and loved, and where could she be hiding?

A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He's turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband's fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis fully transforms? But as Lewis changes, day by day, Wren begins to make peace with the inevitable. After all, this isn't the first time she's lost a loved one.

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm - and the mysterious curse that has haunted them for generations. The madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance left her daughter, June, to be raised by her grandmother. Everyone in Jasper is certain it's only a matter of time before she finds the same end, but June has kept secret that her unravelling has already begun.

Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in - and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused, but when things become stranger and sinister father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins.

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing - again. Left with an ailing grandmother, a raging father and no answers, he finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture who reveals itself to be a bureaucrat from the 'Department of Historical Adjustment'.

Kelsey Willoughby doesn’t have time to pursue her dream of writing a novel. Imagination doesn’t pay the bills, and she’s busy saving her beautiful bookshop from online competition, hotel developers, and the sneaking suspicion that nobody reads anymore. Not to mention all those voices telling her she doesn’t have talent. But then the vacant lot of weeds next door starts to shimmer.

Eliza Paladin is disillusioned with normal life. She and her talking cat, Pal, discover a world where magic is as real as taxes. Even as all her fantasies come true, Eliza discovers a sinister plot that could result in losing the very powers that have given her life meaning.

Cometierra ha elegido dos cosas: un barrio nuevo y no volver a usar su poder adivinatorio nunca más. Rodeada de desconocidos, va saliendo poco a poco de su encierro y aprende a manejarse en su nuevo entorno, al tiempo que aguarda el nacimiento de su sobrino, hijo de su hermano Walter y de la novia de este, Miseria.

Emma Smith, a girl with chrisolite-green eyes, lives in a marvelous rural village by the lake. Some inexplicable mystical occurrences, which she experiences together with Mr. Fog, will forever change her life...and yours!

After losing her dream job and realising that her boyfriend is a jerk, Harlow Estrada decides to flee New York City and head back to the one place she can always call home - the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by the women in Harlow's family. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, and interpret dreams - powers that only Harlow lacks.