Name: The Promise - Silvina Ocampo
Brand: Silvina Ocampo
Price: 84.07 RON
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A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A masterpiece from an extraordinary author who deserves to be read over and over.--Marjorie Agosin, author of I Lived On Butterfly Hillll nKirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector.--Mariana Enriquez, LitHubBoth 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 the next writer you should be reading.--Michael SilverblattA dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.Of all the words that could define her, the most accurate is, I think, ingenious.--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 CalvinoFew writers have an eye for the small horrors of everyday life; fewer still see the everyday marvelous. Other than Silvina Ocampo, I cannot think of a single writer who, at any time in any language, has chronicled both with such wise