House of Mist

House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner--and the mysteries surrounding their life together--in a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in the Chicago Tribune that Bombal showed "bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling . . . mingling . . . fantasy, memory and event."

"One of the most outstanding representations of the avant-garde in Latin America." -Women Writers of Spanish America

Author: Mar?a Luisa Bombal
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/16/2008
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780374531362

About the Author

Maria Luisa Bombal (1910-80) was a Chilean novelist and short story writer. Among her other novels is The Shrouded Woman.