"It is with particular interest... that we greet the publication of New Islands, a slim book of evocative, haunting stories by Maria Luisa Bombal, a Chilean writer whose creative period was basically confined to the 1930's and 40's and whose work, al...
"Bombal--with her bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling, and with her deliberate mingling of fantasy, memory and event--is the precursor o...
Evil menace and fatal suspicion lurk in the mansion where the dark shadow of a young girl’s dreams becomes dread reality… House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism...