House of Mist - Maria Luisa Bombal

n nHouse 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. n nOne of the most outstanding representations of the avant-garde in Latin America.

-Women Writers of Spanish American