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Figures of Enchantment, a magic realist novel by Zulfikar Ghose, follows civil servant Felipe Gamboa, exiled to a remote island after joining an anti-government protest in a South American country resembling Brazil. Concurrently, his daughter Mariana plunges into poverty, while her ex-boyfriend Federico acquires a magical amulet with a Faustian twist, intertwining themes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The book includes themes of economic disparity and political oppression.