Showing results for "Paradise" in Magical Realism

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

Nick and Julia O'Connor's dream trip to Venice collapses when a haunting voice reaches out to Nick from Tintoretto's Paradise, the world's largest oil painting. Though Julia worries her husband suffers from a delusion, Nick is adamant the voice belongs to a woman from the 16th century—his soul mate from a previous life. He discovers a religious order that has developed a method of extracting people's souls, which they imprison in Paradise. Over the centuries, they've judged thousands of souls and sentenced them to eternal purgatory.

Meses después de descubrir la infidelidad de su novio, a Elva la consume una profunda depresión. La noche de los deseos se refugia en casa ahogando sus penas entre el alcohol y la lectura el fin de semana que su ex va a contraer matrimonio. Esa noche una lluvia de estrellas fugaces surca los cielos lista para conceder deseos.