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...Disavowing the magical realism associated with the region — epitomised by Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, in which fantasy tilts towards enchantment — as the product of...
...Trekking me through this delightful weirdness is Edgar Castañeda, an ecologist and crater-diver who absorbs world history the way most of us absorb sunlight....
...Atwood eventually moved on from pulpy science-fiction to Edgar Allen Poe and Doctor Faustus....
...The Spanish-language writer to whom he has most often been likened is Colombian Gabriel García Márquez....
...Among other “recommended authors” were Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Mexican detective fiction writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II....
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