New Islands

Name: New Islands
Author: Maria Luisa Bombal

by Maria Luisa Bombal

Magical island appears and disappears from Chilean coast in fantasy

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Maria Luisa Bombal

Chilean novelist whose lyrical, dreamlike fiction pioneered Latin American literary modernism. The House of Mist and The Shrouded Woman are hallucinatory explorations of female desire and social constraint.

More by Maria Luisa Bombal

The Final MistWoman finds escape and desire in dreamlike fog of Chilean landscape
The Shrouded WomanDead woman reflects on her marriage and life from beyond the grave
The House of MistWoman's mysterious illness triggers dreamlike visions and inner transformations
La Ultima NieblaWoman finds escape and desire in dreamlike fog of Chilean landscape