Books like Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
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The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
House of Day, House of Night
A woman settles in a village in the Sudeten mountains on the Polish-Czech border and gathers the stories of her neighbours, its saints and its dead.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and fall in the mythical town of Macondo, where miracles are mundane and history is a spiral.
Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
Man Tiger
Margio, a young man in a seaside village in Java, kills a man, and the village tries to understand why, and whether it was the white tiger that lives inside him.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Shangguan Lu, a peasant woman in Gaomi, bears eight daughters and at last a son, Jintong, whose account of the family runs from the Japanese invasion to the 1990s.
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Aleksandar, a boy in Višegrad who loves stories and his grandfather, flees to Germany with his family when the Bosnian war comes, and later goes back to look for a girl he once saved.
The Peasants
A year in the life of the village of Lipce, autumn to summer, centred on the rich widowed farmer Maciej Boryna, his marriage to the young beauty Jagna and his son Antek's fury.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.