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March 2001
Compiled by Martha Garbison of Denver Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Books that are written by Asian authors (or Indian) and use the magical realism technique...although the list is a bit broader; probably in the interest of keeping high school students interested!>

The Mistress of Spices   Banerjee, Chitra
God of Small Things   Roy, Arundhati
Shame   Rushdie, Salman
A Wild Sheep Chase   Murakami, Haruki
Dance, Dance, Dance   Murakami, Haruki
Asleep   Yoshimoto, Banana
Tropic of Orange   Yamashita, Karen
Red Earth and Pouring Rain   Chandra, Vikram
The Unconsoled   Ishiguro, Kazuo (we discussed that this was more 'dreamlike' in content and plot than a particularly fine example of the magical realism technique)

www.webrary.org/rs:flbklists/asian.html
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Last updated: 5/8/2001