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Spec Tac
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Spec Tac asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 5 years ago

Can you recommend a book that has touches of surrealism, but is mainly grounded in reality?

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  • Spec Tac
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    My favorite writer is Haruki Murakami, and one aspect of what I enjoy from his books is the way his stories are grounded in reality, with a touch of the surreal. Everything seems as it is in the reality we know, but something subtly will shift, letting a bit of strangeness, weirdness, or other surreal-ness creep in, making it believable, or at least acceptable, because it can't necessarily be explained away.

  • Ignacio
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    'Miss Lonelyhearts', by Nathanael West, and Kurt Vonegut's books.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    American Gods by Neil Gaiman, or Kraken by China Mieville.

  • Marysia
    5 years ago

    I think what You're looking for might be magical realism?

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  • keith
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Warner: The Aerodrome

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    "Hidden Camera" by Zivkovic;

    "Strange Life of Ivan Denisovich;"

    "Dr. Mary's Monkey;"

    "The Path of the Higher Self;"

    the "Michael Vey" series;

    "In a Sunburned Country;"

    "Trafalgar" by Gorodischer.

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