House of Mist: A Novel
Book Details
Author(s)MarÃa Luisa Bombal
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN / ASINB005K5M29W
ISBN-13978B005K5M293
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank977,650
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.â€

