House of Mist: A Novel

by María Luisa Bombal

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374531362
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/16/2008
Series:	FSG Classics
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	550,078
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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