/lit/ - Literature

This seriously needs to be read by more /lit/ users.

The Famished Road
Astonishing the Gods
Nation(terry pratchett)
Kafka on the Shore(I liked it more than wind-up bird chronicle)

Anyone interested in Okri, heres the first page.

IN THE BEGINNING there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn. We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries. There was much feasting, playing, and sorrowing. We feasted much because of the beautiful terrors of eternity. We played much because we were free. And we sorrowed much because there were always those amongst us who had just returned from the world of the Living. They had returned inconsolable for all the love they had left behind, all the suffering they hadn't redeemed, all that they hadn't understood, and for all the they had barley begun to learn before they were drawn back the land of origins.
There was not one amongst us who looked forward to being born. We disliked the rigors of existence, the unfulfilled longing the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom every learn to see.

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Ben Okri's The Famished Road. If you love it, which I did, read it's two sequels and check out all of his work. Astonishing the gods is a great novella by Okri.
The Famished Road is about a spirit boy living in the African slums with his mother and father. He see's spirits, magic etc exactly what you're looking for and it's written very well.

Nation by Terry Pratchett. It's set on a tropical island, ghosts, coming of age etc very good.

I'd throw in Tom Sawyer and Hucklerry Finn. It's not really magical realism, it's more like they think there are ghosts, magical things are happening. Written very well for children's stories. Very happy, nostalgic feelings to them.

You might like the hearing trumpet by Lenora Carrington.

Kenji Miyazawa's short stories are fantastic. Try get his short story collections. Night of the milky way railway is my personal favourite

Norwegian Wood by Huruki Murakami. A guy talking to cats, etc.

Alice In Wonderland.

The Famished Road by Ben Okri. Thank me later op. If you like The Famished Road check out the two sequels and some of his other books are great too.

The Famished Road really moved me. So did Shantaram and Scar Tissue(about Anthony Kiedis of the chili peppers)

/lit/, on recommendation of one of my favourite musicians, I'm considering reading this book. However, given my disinterest in anything related to spiritualism, I am wondering if I should bother?

ITT: Currently Reading
I picked this up for a little over a dollar, and it's is pretty good so far. A fine mix between fantasy and grim but hopeful reality. The best parts are when they intertwine.