House of Mist A Novel [Paperback]

House of Miststands 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 landownerand the mysteries surrounding their life togetherin a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in theChicago Tribunethat 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

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