House of Mist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374531362)

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: Maria Luisa Bombal
ISBN-10: 0374531366
ISBN-13: 9780374531362
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d