House of Mist: A Novel
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374531362 (0374531366)
ASIN: 0374531366
Publish date: 2008-09-16
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This book is the offspring of the Brontes, Cinderella, and the work of H.C. Andersen. A good dose of Rebecca is added to the mix. It is a very gothic novel. Perfectly suited to Masterpiece. It is a very frustrating book. Helga is a child of mys...
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