New Islands: And Other Stories, Paperback/Maria Luisa Bombal

``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, although small in volume, was rich in its effects, anticipating the magic realism found in so much of today's Latin American fiction.`` - The New York Times