Description
A luminous debut of midcentury modernist short fiction, this collection follows girls and women across shifting stages of life as they confront the fragile boundaries between who they are and who the world insists they must become. Through dreamlike scenes and razor-edged prose, characters wrestle with memory, false identity, and the quiet violence of social expectations—discovering that the self is not found so much as fought for, rewritten, and reimagined. At its heart is a meditation on how stories shape reality, and how the past can both imprison and liberate. Translated with care by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan, these tales showcase Silvina Ocampo’s precise, haunting beauty—fiction that feels intimate, uncanny, and urgently contemporary.
Available Editions
paperback
City Lights Publishers
Published Nov 5, 2019
144 pages
ISBN: 9780872867727
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Translation
From: spa
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