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House of Mist
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780374531362
- ISBN-10: 0374531366
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: September 2008
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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