Query: Novels set in North America that are also Magic realism novels excluding American magic realism novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Like Water for Chocolate (novel)
Shoeless Joe (novel)
The Old Gringo
The Book of Phoenix
The Law of Love
In the Skin of a Lion
Truth and Bright Water
The Island of Eternal Love
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Headhunter (novel)
Brown Girl in the Ring (novel)
Swift as Desire
Butterfly Winter
Evidence from documents: Like Water for Chocolate (novel): Esquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel.
Shoeless Joe (novel): '''''Shoeless Joe''''' is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella which became better known due to its 1989 film adaptation, ''Field of Dreams''.
The Old Gringo: The particular group he encounters in Chihuahua, led by 'General' Tomás Arroyo, has just liberated the massive hacienda of the Miranda family. Arroyo is mestizo, the product of the rape of his mother by his Miranda father, and is persuaded by the old gringo to let him join the revolutionary force.
The Book of Phoenix: Novels set in North America that are also Magic realism novels: '''''The Book of Phoenix''''' is a 2015 science fantasy novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor.
set in North America: Phoenix is an accelerated biological organism who was created by LifeGen Technologies and lives in Tower 7 in Manhattan with other SpeciMen.
The Law of Love: Novels set in North America that are also Magic realism novels excluding American magic realism novels: which includes elements of history, mythology, magical realism, science fiction
excluding American magic realism novels: by the Mexican novelist
In the Skin of a Lion: '''''In the Skin of a Lion''''' is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalizes the lives of the immigrants who played a large role in the building of the city of Toronto in the early 1900s, but whose contributions never became part of the city's official history. Ondaatje illuminates the investment of these settlers in Canada, through their labour, while they remain outsiders to mainstream society. ''In the Skin of a Lion'' is thus an exposé of the migrant condition: "It is a novel about the wearing and the removal of masks; the shedding of skin, the transformations and translations of identity."
Truth and Bright Water: The novel embeds a number of magical features (such as the disappearing church) within painstakingly realist prose, showing its affiliation with Magic realism.
The Island of Eternal Love: '''''The Island of Eternal Love''''' is a novel by Cuban author Daína Chaviano.


The plot is a family saga that takes place along two parallel lines: one during our time and another that begins in the 1850s.
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle: '''''The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle''''' is a 2004 novel by Edgardo Vega Yunqué.


The novel follows Omaha Bigelow, a 35-year-old failure, with whom Maruquita Salsipuedesa, a 15-year-old ''bruja'', falls in love. She has her mother perform a "Ceremony of Enlargement" that makes him frequently irresistible to women, and picaresque, magic realist, erotic adventures follow.


''Omaha Bigelow''s narrative is frequently interrupted by authorial commentary, on topics including baseball, literary ethnic ghettos, racism, and U. S. warmongering.
Headhunter (novel): Novels set in North America: The novel is set in a dystopic Toronto, Ontario buffeted by a mysterious plague called sturnusemia, which is believed to be carried by starlings.
Magic realism: Against this backdrop Lilah Kemp, a schizophrenic spiritualist "of intense but undisciplined powers", accidentally sets Kurtz free from page 92 of Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' and is forced to find a Marlow to defeat him.
Brown Girl in the Ring (novel): is a 1998 novel written by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson. The novel contains Afro-Caribbean culture with themes of folklore and magical realism.
Swift as Desire: '''''Swift as Desire''''' (in Spanish ''Tan veloz como el deseo'') is a 2001 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.
Don Júbilo, born with a smile on his face, was blessed at birth with almost supernatural hearing and an instinctive understanding of all kinds of communication, from an insect's faint rustle to the sweet sighs of a woman in love. He used his gift to become the peacemaker in his family, slyly mistranslating between his Spanish-speaking grandmother doña Jesusa, and his Mayan-speaking grandmother doña Itzel, who argue incessantly because the grandmother is angry her son married a non-Mayan, and doña Itzel is determined that Júbilo grow up connected to his heritage. Though the two women may say cruel things to each other, Júbilo gives each woman what she needs to hear, a skill he hones as a little boy that serves him well when he becomes a telegraph operator in adulthood.


At age fifteen Júbilo meets thirteen-year-old Lucha from a well-to-do family. Engaging in a slow, chaste relationship for seven years, the couple decide to get married. Passionate sexual creatures, Júbilo and Lucha communicate their love physically and frequently. Esquivel uses magical realism to tune Júbilo into frequencies that help him communicate verbally and with his body when he’s with his wife.
Butterfly Winter: '''''Butterfly Winter''''' was the seventh novel published by the late Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella. The story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins whose divine destiny for baseball begins with games of catch in the womb, the novel marks a return to form, combining his long-held passions of baseball and magical realism.