About the book "Magic Realism, a term coined by Alejo Carptentier in 1949 to describe a new trend of writing that blended fantastic elements into realistic settings, has gradually grown into a literary phenomenon to be reckoned with. It has produced literary masterpieces like Gunter Grass's Tin Drum and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude which have stood the test of time and have been hailed as influential to world literature as a whole. Both of them have collectively influen...