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House of mist [Hardcover]

María Luisa Bombal (Author)

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Publication Date: 1947

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.”

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About the Author

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

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Product Details

Hardcover: 245 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company; First Edition edition (1947)
Language: English
ASIN: B0007E57Q6
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,570,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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