Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.
With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo initiated a personal.
This collection is an ideal introduction to a beguiling body of work.--Publishers WeeklyThis collection of 28 short stories, first published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first time, introduced readers to one of Argentina\'s most original and iconic authors. . . . it is for the precise and terrible beauty of her sentences that this book should be read.
A masterpiece of midcentury modernist literature triumphantly translated into our times.--Publishers Weekly * Starred ReviewOcampo is beyond great--she is necessary.--Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University Like William Blake, Ocampo\'s first voice was that of a visual artist; in her writing she retains the will to unveil immaterial so that we might at least look at it if not touch it.--Helen Oyeyemi, author of GingerbreadOcampo is a legend of Argentinian literature, and this collection of her short stories brings some of her most recondite and mysterious works to the English-speaking world. . . there has never been another voice like hers.--John Freeman, Executive Editor, LitHub . . . .
Her stories have no equal in our literature.--Jorge Luis BorgesI don\'t know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don\'t show us.--Italo CalvinoThese two newly translated books could make her a rediscovery on par with Clarice Lispector.
The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector.--Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.
Both her debut story collection, Forgotten Journey, and her only novel, The Promise, are strikingly 20th-century texts, written in a high-modernist mode rarely found in contemporary fiction.--Lily Meyer, NPRSilvina Ocampo is one of our best writers.
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love
