House of Mist A Novel
, by Bombal, María Luisa- ISBN: 9780374531362 | 0374531366
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/16/2008
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."